Gallic Ping.
And I don't blame de Gaulle one bit for saying what he did. He was speaking as a French patriot, not as some impartial historian.
Much of the Resistance were Communists, who were more loyal to Stalin than to La France.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorrow_and_the_Pity
The Resistance?
Smaller than people think, and mostly rejects, whackos and the homeless who had NOTHING to lose.
Most people just went with the flow.
From my reading, I have to agree with whoever it was who said that, if every Frenchman (and Frenchwoman) who, after the war, stated that they were a member of the resistance, the total would have equaled or exceeded the entire population of France.
Side note to the vaunted French Resistance
November27, 1942, French fleet at Toulon scuttled
Once again France and her soldiers and sailors were ill served by her aristocratic officer corps.
French Admiral de LaBorde’s stiff backed dithering in having the remaining French fleet breakout of Toulon harbor allowed German forces to take control, locking the French in.
Scuttling charges had been placed before the brief battle and were set off once the loss was inevitable. They succeeded.
The French destroyed 77 vessels, including 3 battleships, 7 cruisers, 15 destroyers, and 13 torpedo boats. Five submarines managed to get underway, with three reaching North Africa, one Spain, and the last forced to scuttle at the mouth of the harbor. The surface ship Leonor Fresnel also escaped. While Charles de Gaulle and the Free French severely criticized the action, stating that the fleet should have tried to escape, the scuttling prevented the ships from falling into Axis hands.
That pathetic excuse tried to gloss over critical loss of vital naval assets that could have been instrumental in controlling the Mediterranean and strangling the supply chain to German Forces in North Africa.
Admiral LaBorde was tried for treason after the war, found guilty and sentenced to death, latee commuted to life.