I’m a cynical old buzzard who thinks France deserved to be occupied in WWII since they pretty well guaranteed there would be another war at Versailles. And they never forgave us for liberating them. De Gaulle was a pompous ingrate.
Yes, de Gaulle was full of himself.
But, in the 1980's, my wife and I had dinner at the home of a French bank V.P. in Paris where there were just three of us Americans present. All of the French guys essentially apologized for the treatment of Americans since the war. They pointed out that a lot of French people appreciated Americans and did not like de Gaulle's handling of the situation.