The barricade massacre crossed a catastrophic frontier in the Algerian war.

Evidence

As Challe wrote in 1967: “I still today consider the affair of the Barricades as an imbecile and tragic mistake by the brave people who wanted to keep Algeria for France…and probably it was the critical moment marking the defeat of the policy of Algérie française.” — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1142 (#expands, via linked claim)

Most disappointingly of all perhaps for the F.L.N. was the fact that, after the initial shock of All Saints had subsided, the pieds noirs resumed their way of life as if absolutely nothing had happened; if anything, they had averted their gaze still further from the root causes of Algerian discontent. … In metropolitan France, Mendès-France had not been deflected from carrying out his North American tour in mid-November, and it was still not yet considered necessary to decree a state of emergency in Algeria. Deadlock threatened. Says Pierre Leulliette: “Fear engenders cruelty; cruelty, fear, insanity and then paralysis. In the centre of Dante’s circle, the damned remained motionless.” This vicious circle now began in Algeria. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 332 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery; Porous frontiers shaped the Algerian War’s outcome and de Gaulle’s rise; The Barricades affair marked the defeat of French Algeria policy — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1142 (+1 more)

Related

• The barricades insurrection proved the decisive failure of the Algérie française cause. (similarity 0.87)
• The Barricades affair marked the defeat of French Algeria policy (similarity 0.86)
• Porous frontiers shaped the Algerian War’s outcome and de Gaulle’s rise (similarity 0.84)
• French metropolitan public had grown apathetic about Algeria by late 1961. (similarity 0.84)
• The barricades marked the first killing of Frenchmen by Frenchmen in the war. (similarity 0.83)
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery (similarity 0.83)
• Four factors broke the Barricades insurrection, led by de Gaulle’s speech (similarity 0.81)
• Pied noir denial and metropolitan complacency froze Algeria into a vicious deadlock (similarity 0.81)
• The pieds noirs, not Muslims, triggered the events sealing Algérie française’s fate (similarity 0.80)
• Censorship and metropolitan distraction masked the gravity of the Algiers crisis. (similarity 0.80)
• Frenchmen killing Frenchmen in Algeria crossed a civil-war threshold for France. (similarity 0.80)
• Pied noir survival in Algeria was untenable even without O.A.S. violence (similarity 0.80)
• The Algerian war fit no declared-war category yet killed a million people (similarity 0.79)
• Every French reform effort in Algeria was blocked by pied noir pressure groups (similarity 0.78)
• The Battle of Algiers marked the end of any possibility of negotiated settlement (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Barricades affair marked the defeat of French Algeria policy #expands (0.85) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1142
• The Algerian war was simultaneously a war of peace and one of extreme savagery #complicates (0.55)
• Porous frontiers shaped the Algerian War’s outcome and de Gaulle’s rise #expands (0.50)
• Pied noir denial and metropolitan complacency froze Algeria into a vicious deadlock #expands (0.50) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 332