gendarme
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Outside, TV crews stood at the ready and a comedian dressed as a gendarme sold “genuine fake Swiss passports.”
From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025
Mr Darmanin also said the officer had also "dirtied and spat on the uniform of the Republic and his 250,000 other police and gendarme colleagues".
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024
Dinghies used by migrants to try to cross the channel are seen at the French gendarme brigade in Marquise, France, August 20, 2020.
From Reuters ● Jul. 23, 2021
She now has second thoughts about becoming a gendarme for the French military because she “didn’t feel like working for a country that doesn’t love me.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 21, 2021
After the news, a gendarme would come and turn off the television set, taking home the key.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
In Gironde, about 2,500 firefighters, 1,500 military personnel, and 1,200 police officers and gendarmes have been involved in tackling the blaze.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
"The gendarmes knocked on every door," said Boisvert, adding they left by car with their two children, aged five and two.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
"The gendarmes came and knocked on every door, the fire was about 500 metres away -- we grabbed some things and left," Patrick Martineau, a 69-year-old resident of Le Porge, south of Bordeaux, said.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
But justice officials and gendarmes acted so slowly that over the next nine months Barella was not even contacted.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2026
There could be people in the streets: volunteers, gendarmes, fire brigades.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
