Robert Merle (born 
1908) is a French writer.
Merle has written in many styles and won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Week-end à Zuydcoote[?]. He has also written a 12 book series of historical novels, Fortune de France[?]. Recreating 16th and 17th century France through the eyes of a fictive Protestant doctor turned spy, he goes so far as to write it in the period's French making it virtually untranslatable. 
Bibliography:
-  Week-end à Zuydcoote (1949)
-  La mort est mon métier (1952)
-  L'île (1962)
-  Un animal doué de la raison (1967)
-  Malevil (1972)
-  Les hommes protégés (1974)
-  Le propre de l'homme (1989)
-  Fortune de France
-  En nos vertes années
-  Paris ma bonne ville
-  Le prince que voilà
-  La violente amour
-  La Pique du jour
-  La volte des vertugadins
-  L’Enfant-Roi
-  Les Roses de la vie
-  Le Lys et la Pourpre
-  La Gloire et les Périls
-  Complots et Cabales
 
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