Marie Noël, born Marie-Melanie Rouget (Auxerre, 16 February 1883 – 23 December 1967) was a French poet, a devout Catholic laywoman and officer of the Légion d'honneur.^[1][2][3][4] She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1960.^[5]

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Servant of God Marie Noël
Born	(1883-02-16)16 February 1883 Auxerre, Yonne, France
Died	23 December 1967(1967-12-23) (aged 84) Auxerre, Yonne, France

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Her cause of beatification has been initiated by the Roman Catholic Church.^[6]

• Les Chansons et les Heures (1922)
• Noël de l'Avent (1928)
• Chants de la Merci (1930)
• Le Rosaire des joies (1930)
• Chants sauvages (1936)
• Contes (1944)
• Chants et psaumes d'automne (1947)
• L'Âme en peine (1954)
• L'Œuvre poétique, Stock (1956)
• Notes intimes (1959)
• Chants d’arrière saison (1961)
• Le chant du chevalier (1969)
• Le cru d'Auxerre (1967)
• L'Œuvre en prose, Stock (1976)
• Les Chansons et les Heures suivi de Le Rosaire des joies, Poésie/Gallimard, (1983)
• Le chemin d'Anna Bargeton, Stock, (1986)
• Almanach pour une jeune fille triste, Desclée de Brouwer, (2011)
• Reflected Light, translated by Sara Elizabeth Woodruff, Pageant Press, 1964. Contains selected poems from Les Chansons et les Heures, Les Chants de la Merci, Le Rosaire des Joies, Chants et Psaumes d'Automne and Chants d'Arriere Saison. The book contains a brief 17 page commentary about Marie Noël.