Léon Noël

Léon Noël
President of the Constitutional Council of France
In office 1959–1965
Deputy for the RPF
In office 1951–1955
French Ambassador in Poland
In office 1935–1940
Plenipotentiary Minister in Prague
In office 1932–1935
Prefect of Haut-Rhin
In office 1930–1931
High Commissioner of the French Republic in Rhineland
In office 1927–1930
Personal details
Born	(1888-03-28)28 March 1888 Toucy, France
Died	6 August 1987(1987-08-06) (aged 99) Paris, France
Profession	Lawyer, diplomat

Léon Philippe Jules Arthur Noël (March 28, 1888 – August 6, 1987) was a French diplomat, politician and historian.

Biography

He is the son of Jules Noël, conseiller d'Etat, and Cécile Burchard-Bélaváry. He received a Doctor of Laws in 1912 and then became Conseiller d'État. In 1927 he became Délégué Général of the High Commissioner of the French Republic in Rhineland.

He became Prefect of Haut-Rhin in 1930, Plenipotentiary Minister in Prague (1932–1935), and then French Ambassador to Poland (1935–1940).

He represented the French Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second Armistice at Compiègne on 22 June 1940. He was named delegate general in the territories occupied on July 9, 1940. Ten days later he resigned, and he joined de Gaulle in 1943. He is member (1944) next president of French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences (1958).

He was a Member of the French Parliament (RPF) (1951–1955).

He was the first President of the Constitutional Council of France (1959–1965).

Distinctions

• Grand'croix of the Légion d'honneur
• Grand'croix of the Ordre national du Mérite
• Krzyż Wielki (Grand cross) of the Polonia Restituta
• Grand'croix of the Order of the White Lion
• knight of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques

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Bibliography

• Collectif, In memoriam Léon Noël (1888–1987), Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Historiques et Naturelles de l'Yonne, 1987, p. 5-8.
• Yves Beauvois, Léon Noël, de Laval à de Gaulle, via Pétain, Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2001
• Id., « Le Conseil constitutionnel à ses débuts », Commentaire, hiver 2006-2007, p. 943-954

External links, sources

• Notice on the French Parliament's web site
• Notice on the French Constitutionnal Council's web site
• Biographie cf book of Yves Beauvois