SHORT STORY AND BIG MORAL: Who liberated Paris from the Nazis?

Story
60 years ago someone liberated Paris from the Nazis. This is a fact. But who exactly? It depends. According to the late general Charles de Gaulle:

«Paris! Paris violated! Paris broken! Paris martyred! But Paris liberated! Liberated by itself, liberated by its people and with the aid of the armies of France, with the support and aid of all of France, of embattled France, of the only France, of the real France, of the eternal France. …
This is why the French front line entered Paris with canons blasting. That is why the great French army of Italy set out for the Midi [August 15, 1944] and is rapidly making way for the Rhône valley. That is why our brave and dear interior forces are equipping themselves with modern weapons.»

[Remembered by ¡No Pasarán!, here]

What people was de Gaulle referring to? The people scared to death running from the Nazis in 1939? The hundreds thousand collaborationists?
What armies was de Gaulle referring to? The military capitulating en mass to the Nazis in 1939? The Vichy’s army?

Moral
Having in mind the recent feelings of French government and French intelligentsia, tradition is still the same.