Léon Noël

Léon Noël
Léon Noël
President of the Constitutional Council
	In office; 1959–1965
President	Charles de Gaulle
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	28 March 1888; Paris, France
Died	6 August 1987 (aged 99); Toucy, France
Nationality	French
Alma mater	Paris Law Faculty
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

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Political offices
Preceded by New creation	President of the Constitutional Council 1959–1965	Succeeded by Gaston Palewski

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