No, I never got the liberation of France to fire properly. (That part of the AAR was 1.1c iirc.)
I could liberate MOST countries with "Liberate Nation" if I controlled their capital--I was able to liberate Poland. However, the Vichy France event moves the capital of 'France' to some colony in Africa, which was still controlled by (Free) France.
I suspect to 'liberate' them I would have had to DoW them and occupy that colony.
There are not very many events/decisions in the game atm, and it seemed really strange to me to have Vichy France included as an event but no event/decision to 'undo' it.
In fact, in this game, after I puppeted Germany, they kept all their French territory.
If anyone else has gotten the liberation of France to work, I'd like to hear it.