Noël Lavergne succeeded his father, Claudius Lavergne (1814–1887), as head of the family’s Parisian stained-glass atelier, continuing the firm’s reputation for intellectual clarity, fine draughtsmanship, and refined colour. Having worked alongside his father for a number of years, Noël absorbed both the technical discipline of the studio and the rigorous iconographic principles inherited from Claudius’s collaboration with Adolphe-Napoléon Didron.

After his father’s death in 1887, Noël took full control of the workshop, maintaining its dual role as both designer of new ecclesiastical glazing and restorer of historic windows. His production, active into the early twentieth century, preserved the characteristic Lavergne style: clearly defined contour drawing, luminous but tempered colour harmonies, and figures conceived with serene classical restraint. Under Noël’s direction the atelier supplied numerous parish churches throughout France, contributing to the continuity of the Didron–Lavergne tradition well into the period dominated by more pictorial, naturalistic approaches to stained glass.

Although less publicly visible than his father, Noël Lavergne’s work demonstrates an unbroken lineage of craftsmanship and scholarship, sustaining the moral and aesthetic ideals of the French stained-glass revival. His career represents the quieter persistence of classical order within a changing artistic landscape—an inheritance of light, line, and faith carried into a new century.