Léon Noël
Léon Noël | |
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High Commissioner of the French Republic in Rhineland | |
| In office 1927–1930 | |
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| Born | 28 March 1888 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,
High Commissioner of the French Republic in Rhineland
.
He became
French Ambassador to Poland
(1935–1940).
He represented 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
- 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
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