
Le Magnifique
Francois Merlin is an espionnage-book writer. He likes to mix every-day character he can met in his book. In his book, he is Bob Saint Clar, his neighbour Christine appears as Tatiana and his editor Georges Charon as Colonel Karpoff.














July 18, 1920 in Douai, Nord, France

3 October 1919, Valenciennes, Nord, France


August 21, 1912 in Moscow


13 September 1944, Weybridge, Surrey, England, UK


August 9, 1927 in Charleville-Mézières, Ardennes, France

September 13, 1931 in Marseille, France

May 1, 1928 in Colmar, Haut-Rhin, France

October 26, 1932 in Paris, France

March 11, 1920 in Sotteville-les-Rouen, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France



July 3, 1949 in Paris, France


December 16, 1912 in Paris, France



November 20, 1930 in Paris, France


April 9, 1933 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France], France

August 15, 1921 in Naples, Campania, Italy

17 May 1920, Brussels, Belgium

December 18, 1930 in Romania


22 February 1925, Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d'Oise, France

June 20, 1921 in Mexico D.F., Mexico

March 21, 1918 in Rouen, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France

May 22, 1934 in Paris, France