Education
Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
Diplomat linguist politician translator
Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
A student then a professor at the collège Louis-le-Grand, Noël left his job at the outbreak of the French Revolution, collaborating on the journal la Chronique and going on several diplomatic missions. In 1795/96 to the Batavian Republic. In 1801, he was made préfet of the Haut-Rhin and, in 1802, inspector general of public education.
Named a member of the Tribunat, he left it to go to Lyon to fill the role of commisar-general of police.