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
“Closed. You’ll have to walk around,” a French gendarme had just told them, gesturing towards the south.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
The boat was rescued from there by the Senegalese gendarme and brought to Saint-Louis.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 14, 2023
Wright also added that a gendarme caught on film with a firearm would be identified and prosecuted.
From Reuters ● Oct. 21, 2022
After the news, a gendarme would come and turn off the television set, taking home the key.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
"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
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
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
Eventually two French gendarmes spotted them through the undergrowth and walked, slowly, forwards.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
There could be people in the streets: volunteers, gendarmes, fire brigades.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
