The death sentence of Charles de Gaulle by France in 1940

Charles de Gaulle was sentenced to death on August 2, 1940 by the military tribunal of Clermont-Ferrand. Pétain and Weygand then judged his initial sentence of four years in prison pronounced one month earlier to be insufficient. This new conviction for treason and desertion was accompanied by the confiscation of all his movable and immovable property.