François-Joseph-Michel Noël
Contributions
- Magasin encyclopédique journalist
- Nouvelle géographie universelle, descriptive, historique, industrielle et commerciale des quatre parties du monde translation translator
Knows
- André-Samuel-Michel Cantwell librarian military translator
- Camille Desmoulins freemason journalist jurist politician
- Hyacinthe Langlois bookseller publisher writer
- Jean-Baptiste-Étienne-Élie Le Normant bookseller publisher
- Gabriel-Henri Nicolle bookseller journalist professor publisher
- Maximilien Robespierre jurist politician revolutionary
- François Soulès teacher translator writer
- Pierre Henri Helene Marie Lebrun-Tondu cleric diplomat journalist military publisher scientist teacher
Member of
- Legion of Honor political organisation
- Société des Amis des Noirs political organisation
Notes
Noël was a prize-winning scholarship student who studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand with Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, before becoming a professor there. He translated Catullus and Gallus amongst others, and was the author of a number of school-books including a classic on French grammar.
When revolution broke out he resigned from his ecclesiastical post and became a journalist on the Chronique de Paris and the Magasin encyclopédique from 1791-92, before joining the Ministry of War and then the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Lebrun-Tondu, where he was charged with a series of diplomatic missions to London, then Venice and the Hague as France's ambassador.