Robert Merle

Robert Merle (born 1908) is a French writer.

Merle has written in many styles and won the Prix Goncourt for his novel Week-end � 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 � Zuydcoote (1949)
La mort est mon m�tier (1952)
L'�le (1962)
Un animal dou� de la raison (1967)
Malevil (1972)
Les hommes prot�g�s (1974)
Le propre de l'homme (1989)

Fortune de France series (1978-2002)

Fortune de France
En nos vertes ann�es
Paris ma bonne ville
Le prince que voil�
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 P�rils
Complots et Cabales