The December 1960 riots ended de Gaulle’s multiracial Algeria vision

Evidence

Sixty miles away in Tizi-Ouzou, the capital of Kabylia, de Gaulle was again risking his life by walking into the middle of a Muslim crowd. “A Franco-Algerian fraternity will take shape once the blood has stopped flowing…,” he told them. But the blood flowing in Algiers was to mark the beginning of true civil war, and the end of any Gaullist dream of a multi-racial “Algérie algérienne, associated with France”. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1312

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: After December 1960 the army, not the pieds noirs, drove events in Algeria; December 1960’s riots shattered three founding myths of French Algeria; December 1960’s violence destroyed de Gaulle’s multi-racial Algérie algérienne vision (+10 more)

Related

• December 1960’s violence destroyed de Gaulle’s multi-racial Algérie algérienne vision (similarity 0.96)
• December 1960’s riots shattered three founding myths of French Algeria (similarity 0.92)
• December 1960’s Muslim demonstrations decisively turned the Algerian war (similarity 0.91)
• De Gaulle’s 1960 tour divided Algeria’s European and Muslim communities openly (similarity 0.89)
• By late 1960 both Muslim and European Algerians had lost faith in de Gaulle (similarity 0.88)
• After December 1960 the army, not the pieds noirs, drove events in Algeria (similarity 0.87)
• December’s lesson reshaped de Gaulle’s subsequent Algeria policy (similarity 0.86)
• The 1960 Algerian debate polarized France between two manifestos. (similarity 0.84)
• The failed December 1960 coup irrevocably committed part of the French army to revolt (similarity 0.83)
• Escalating polarization in 1960 crushed centrist moderates in France’s Algerian debate (similarity 0.81)
• The January 1960 Algiers uprising was premeditated, not spontaneous (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Muslim rioters attacked Algeria’s Jewish community during the 1960 demonstrations #expands (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1311
• The December 1960 Muslim demonstration reversed the war’s momentum #corroborates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1319
• De Gaulle’s pursuit of national grandeur dictated abandoning Algeria #corroborates (0.45)
• Escalating polarization in 1960 crushed centrist moderates in France’s Algerian debate #complicates (0.40)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. #qualifies (0.35) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 853
• The failed December 1960 coup irrevocably committed part of the French army to revolt #responds-to (0.30) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1332