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
Francois V had indeed worked as a gendarme and a police officer, and as a town councilor in the town of Prades-le-Lez in southern France.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2021
While few details have been confirmed, Le Parisien newspaper reported that François V was a 59-year-old former gendarme - a policeman attached to the French military.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2021
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
On most nights, the people stayed at the site long after this gendarme had gone and told stories to one another beneath the big blank screen.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
"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
To ensure public safety, authorities have deployed 4,800 police officers and gendarmes, along with 2,500 firefighters, in and around the capital.
From Barron's ● Jun. 21, 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
Under the terms of engagement, gendarmes will only intervene to stop "taxi-boats" before they take on migrants – and not when they are fully charged.
From BBC ● Jan. 20, 2026
Two young gendarmes pile them into the back of a truck and drive up the narrow street and across the causeway and are gone.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
