My wife's uncle was a bomber-pilot, shot down over France, and whisked safely back to Britain by that same FFI.
Has that sentiment evaporated completely from among the French? I think not; but those freedom-fighters must now, again, act. I don't hear their voices. Are they speaking, but filtered out by the media?
Point well taken..However if you delve into the records, you will find that the FFI were generally but not always communists, being directed from Moscow. Their actual goal was to take over the government once France was free. They were thwarted by De Gaulle. Therefore, risking their necks had a very evil motivation.
Ike let Gen. LeClerc have the honor of "liberating" Paris, course the Germans had already left peacefully. The irony of it was that most of the "French" troops that liberated Paris were actually Spanish communist volunteers.
History has a way of hiding things that do not square with public perception.