Léon Philippe Jules Arthur Noël (March 28, 1888 - August 6, 1987) was a French diplomat, politician and historian.
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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 (dignity of Ambassadeur de France) in 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 (RPR) (1951–1955).
He was the first President of the Constitutional Council of France (1959–1965).
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President of the Constitutional Council 1959–1965 |
Succeeded by Gaston Palewski |