The post-war legal processes against Philippe Pétain begin.

Philippe Pétain

French general (1856–1951)

Henri Philippe Bénoni Omer Joseph Pétain, better known as Marshal Pétain, was a French marshal who commanded the French Army in World War I and later became the head of the collaborationist regime of Vichy France, from 1940 to 1944, during World War II.