Petain, de Gaulle and Patriotism

As part of an excellent back-and-forth with Daniel Larison on the question of patritism, Noah Millman asks:

Can one hold that both Marsall Petain and General de Gaulle were French patriots? I think the answer to this one has to be “yes.” You can’t hold that both were right, but you can believe that both were acting sincerely out of patriotic motives – that both were doing what they felt was best for France as France.

I rather agree with this, but would go further and argue that you can hold that both Petain and de Gaulle were right. That is, if one imagines onself as a Frenchman in the summer of 1940, one might think easily that Petain was right to save what could be saved – albeit at great cost and damage – to preserve something of the idea of France and avoid the humiliation of seeing the entire country occupied by German forces while also hoping that de Gaulle and his followers would eventually prevail.