Editing Philippe Pétain (section)

===Death and burial===
[[File:Sépulture de Philippe Pétain (Éduarel, 30 octobre 2016, vue 3).jpg|thumb|Grave of Pétain on Île d'Yeu.]]
Pétain died in a private home in {{Interlanguage link|Port-Joinville|fr}} on the Île d'Yeu on 23 July 1951, at the age of 95.<ref name="marechal-petain.com"/> His body was buried in a local cemetery (''Cimetière communal de Port-Joinville'').<ref name=paxton/> Calls were made to relocate his remains to the grave prepared for him at [[Verdun]].<ref>Dank, Milton. ''The French Against the French: Collaboration and Resistance'', p. 361.</ref>

Surrounded by [[thuja]]s and [[cypress]]es, the simple white granite slab topped with a wooden cross is in front of the west wall of the cemetery, facing away from the sea in the opposite direction to the 1,700 other tombs, a positioning linked to the fact that he was convicted of ''[[Indignité nationale]]'',<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/guerre-de-14-18/11-novembre/il-y-en-a-meme-qui-viennent-defequer-dessus-sur-l-ile-d-yeu-l-encombrante-tombe-du-marechal-petain_3431283.html|title=Il y en a même qui viennent déféquer dessus : sur l'île d'Yeu, "l'encombrante" tombe du maréchal Pétain|trans-title=There are even some who come to defecate on it: on the island of Yeu, the "cumbersome" tomb of Marshal Pétain|first=Raphaël|last=Godet|date=8 May 2019|access-date=12 December 2024|work=francetvinfo.fr|language=French}}</ref> a sanction which did not prevent him from being buried in his military uniform and that the mention of Marshal of France was engraved in black capital letters.

In February 1973, Pétain's coffin housing his remains was [[Theft of Philippe Pétain's coffin|stolen]] from the [[Île d'Yeu]] cemetery by extremists who demanded that President [[Georges Pompidou]] consent to its re-interment at [[Douaumont ossuary]] among the war dead of the [[Battle of Verdun]]. Police recovered the coffin a few days later, and it was ceremoniously reburied with a presidential wreath on the Île d'Yeu where it had been buried before.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Vichy: An Ever-present Past |author1-last=Conan |author1-first=Eric |author2-last=Rousso |author2-first=Henry |year=1998 |publisher=University Press of New England |location=Hanover, NH |isbn=978-0874517958 |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=svjEWDsVMlEC&pg=PA21 }}</ref>

A small museum glorifying Pétain, the Historical Museum of the Île d'Yeu, displays writings and personal items of Pétain, such as his deathbed, his clothes and his cane. The museum is not publicized and rarely opens – according to its manager, to "avoid trouble".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Méheut |first=Constant |date=10 September 2022 |title='Glorious' Hero or 'Deplorable' Traitor? Pétain's Legacy Haunts French Island |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/10/world/europe/france-petain-grave-legacy.html |access-date=10 September 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>