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:
Fortune de France series (1978-2002)