Léon Noël

Léon Philippe Jules Arthur Noël (28 March 1888 – 6 August 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 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
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 * 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