Wiki says this about Roman a Clef: Roman ?? clef or roman ?? cl?? (French pronunciation: [????m????n???a kle]), French for novel with a key, is a phrase used to describe a novel about real life, overlaid with a fa??ade of fiction.[1] The fictitious names in the novel represent real people, and the key is the relationship between the nonfiction and the fiction.[2] This key may be produced sep