Why is France considered a Winner of world war 2?

My teacher said they’re one of the winners with usa great britain Soviet Union etc But in my memory didn’t they lose to the germans and then they had to be liberated. Making them a loser of the war ? Because they didn’t help much after the liberation. Just a thought, might be wrong or miss understood something via /r/HistoryMemes http://bit.ly/30nhD0W