Class, elegance, freedom and independence of mind, audacity and curiosity, taste for formula and verve, a voracious appetite for adventure... He was the prince of the great reporters, the “poet of immediate history” from the underbelly of Paris to the sidewalks of Buenos Aires, from the penal colony of Cayenne and the insane asylums in the land of the Soviets, to the depths of the Balkans and the Polish ghettos, in passing through China and India, Africa, Lebanon and Palestine of Jewish settlers.
Albert Londres was this man of the pen doubled as a white knight and a righter of wrongs, defender of great humanitarian causes, slayer of injustices, character of his tormented, colorful century, escaped from a novel by Joseph Conrad or from a Rimbaudian legend.
Jean Lacouture said:
“He was the one who broke the bolts.
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