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Robert Merle
Born Aug 28, 1908Died at 95Tébessa, Constantine, France [now Algeria]Writing
Robert Merle (28 August 1908 – 27 March 2004) was a French novelist. Merle was born in 1908 in Tébessa, French Algeria. His father Félix, who was an interpreter "with a perfect knowledge of literary and spoken Arabic", was killed in 1916 in the Dardanelles. Young Merle and his mother moved to Paris, where he attended three lycées and the Sorbonne.
