sentences:  On 8 June 1951 President Auriol, informed that Pétain had little longer to live, commuted his sentence to confinement in hospital (the news was kept secret until after the elections on 17 June), but by then Pétain was too ill to be moved to Paris.Pétain died in a private home in Port-Joinville on the Île d'Yeu on 23 July 1951, at the age of 95.His body was buried in a local cemetery ("Cimetière communal de Port-Joinville").