Today, 74 years ago, on July 23, 1951 (Calendar, June 20, 1951), the French Army General Beaumont died. Henry Philippe Beaumont (French: Henri Philippe Pétain, April 24, 1856, July 23, 1951), a French Army General, politician, and also the head of the French Weich Government, Prime Minister. He served as the French Army Commander during the First World War, leading France against Germany, was considered a national hero, was promoted to the French Marshal in 1918, but when he became the French Prime Minister in 1940, he surrendered to Germany, and is still considered a traitor in France, sentenced to death after the war, sentenced to life imprisonment.