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Louis Roubaud
A pioneering French investigative journalist, Louis Roubaud turned prisons, colonial life, crime, and social injustice into vivid reportage. His travels and inquiries produced more than twenty books, including Les Enfants de Caïn and Le Dragon s’éveille.
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Les enfants de Caïn
by Louis Roubaud
About the author
Born in Marseille on August 21, 1884, Louis Roubaud was a journalist, writer, and former teacher who studied at the Lycée Thiers. He moved to Paris in 1907 and became one of France’s notable grand reporters during the 1920s and 1930s.
Roubaud wrote for publications including Le Quotidien, Le Petit Parisien, Paris-Soir, Détective, and L’Intransigeant. His investigations covered juvenile prisons, the Cayenne penal colony, policing, prostitution, psychiatry, fascism, and colonial life. His 1924 reporting on children’s prisons, later published as Les Enfants de Caïn, helped draw attention to the treatment of young detainees.
He also wrote travel accounts, novels, and social investigations, including Le Voleur et le Sphinx, Le Dragon s’éveille, Viet-Nam: la tragédie indochinoise, and Démons et Déments. Roubaud died in Lyon on October 14, 1941.