Louis Nicolle (16 June 1871 – 23 July 1942) was a French linen manufacturer and politician who was a deputy from 1924 to 1936, and was Minister of Health in 1936.

Nicolle attended the lycée in Lille, undertook his year of military service, then entered the business of manufacturing linen from flax.

During World War I (1914–18) the Germans occupied the town, removed the machinery and dismantled the facilities.

The architect André Granet, nephew of Gustave Eiffel, undertook the project in 1923–25 using reinforced concrete.

[2] In 1924 Nicolle was elected deputy on the Democratic Republican Entente list, and was reelected until he retired from political life in 1936.