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Léon Noël
Léon Noël
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

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

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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