Léon Noël
Léon Noël | |
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| President of the Constitutional Council | |
| In office 5 March 1959 – 5 March 1965 | |
| Appointed by | Charles de Gaulle |
| Succeeded by | Gaston Palewski |
| 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 |
| Alma mater | Paris Law Faculty |
| Profession | Lawyer Diplomat |
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Léon Philippe Jules Arthur Noël (28 March 1888 – 6 August 1987) was a French diplomat, politician and historian.
Biography
[edit]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 9 July 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Léon Noël, L'agression allemande contre la Pologne, Flammarion, 1946.
- 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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- 1888 births
- 1987 deaths
- Politicians from Paris
- French people of Hungarian descent
- Rally of the French People politicians
- Deputies of the 2nd National Assembly of the French Fourth Republic
- Members of Parliament for Yonne
- Members of the Conseil d'État (France)
- Prefects of Haut-Rhin
- Ambassadors of France to Poland
- 20th-century French diplomats
- 20th-century French lawyers
- University of Paris alumni
- Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour
- Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite
- Recipients of the Order of the White Lion
- Recipients of the Order of Polonia Restituta
- Chevaliers of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- Members of the Constitutional Council (France)