gendarmerie

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Stating the country "no longer needs disturbances", his first appointments to his new cabinet were to the ministries of the armed forces, public security and the gendarmerie.

From Barron's • Oct. 9, 2025

"Tensions between groups broke out, requiring the intervention of the police and the gendarmerie," Vienne regional police said in a statement.

From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024

Four mobile gendarmerie squadrons are being deployed as reinforcements, including 15 gendarmes from an elite intervention unit.

From Seattle Times • May 15, 2024

“It’s very ambitions and it’s true that many experts have voiced opposition,” said Bertrand Cavallier, the former commander of France’s national gendarmerie police training center, speaking in a phone interview.

From Washington Times • May 23, 2023

CUIRASSIERS, a kind of heavy cavalry, originally developed out of the men-at-arms or gendarmerie forming the heavy cavalry of feudal armies.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various