A former student of Henri Bergson, he was a professor of Jean Rousset.

He defied his father and continued studying humanities instead of moving to the Ecole Normale.

His university career led him to being associate professor at Lons-le-Saunier, Carpentras, Draguignan, Abbeville, and Blois.

[1] Thibaudet's reputation increased through 1920s and 1930s, in part for his regular articles in the Nouvelle Revue Française which he wrote from 1912 until his death, as well as for his numerous books.

[citation needed] In 2008, the Thucydides Centre (a research institute of the Paris Panthéon-Assas University) inaugurated the "Albert Thibaudet Prize", awarded to a French-language writer on international relations.