His family moved frequently and Louis attended schools in Laval, Angers, Chambéry, and Le Havre.
Recalled to active service during the First World War, he served in the infantry and the air force, and received the Légion d'honneur.
On 10 July 1940, Louis Noguères was one of the eighty who voted against granting special powers to Marshal Philippe Pétain.
Placed under police surveillance, he was ejected from the Chamber of Deputies in February 1941 when a letter which expressed his hostility to the Vichy Regime, Nazi Germany, and Fascism, was intercepted.
He publicly expressed opposition to Vichy at the funeral of Senator Georges Pézières in March 1941, and was placed under house arrest, first Argentat in Corrèze, then at Florac in Lozère.