François-Joseph-Michel Noël
François-Joseph-Michel Noël (12 January 1756, Saint-Germain-en-Laye - 29 January 1841, Paris) was a French humanist and diplomat. Life 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. Named a member of the Tribunat, he left it to go to Lyon to fill the role of commissar-general of police. In 1801, he was made préfet of the Haut-Rhin and, in 1802, inspector general of public education. Works His very numerous works were in large part compilations of his views on university education. Noël wrote, with, J.-M.-J. de La Place : ''Conciones poeticæ, ou Discours choisis des poètes latins anciens'' (Paris, 1803, in-12) ; ''Leçons françaises de littérature et de morale'' (1801., 2 vol. in-8°), a frequently-reprinted anthology long used in all collèges ; ''Leçons latines ancienne ...
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