Léon Noël
Introduction '''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...
Bibliography *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
External links * French Parliament website* French Constitutional Council website* Biography by Yves Beauvois