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 series (1978-2002)

  • 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