As 1960 went on it had increasingly little of comfort to offer de Gaulle. It was the year of polarisation, with opposing extremes becoming more extreme, and more powerful, and progressively crushing the life out of the moderates in the centre. "I saw better than ever what had to be done," de Gaulle wrote in his memoirs of his sentiments in the aftermath of "Barricades Week": "I doubted less than ever that it was my duty to accomplish it But I needed as much as ever the support of the French people."

QUESTION: This describes a specific year of polarization — worth identifying which year and what the moderates' fate was.

Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Alge…, loc. 1271