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
Wright also added that a gendarme caught on film with a firearm would be identified and prosecuted.
From Reuters ● Oct. 21, 2022
He has passed tests to become a gendarme and hopes not to be sentenced, to keep a clean record.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 22, 2021
After the news, a gendarme would come and turn off the television set, taking home the key.
From "Krik? Krak!" by Edwidge Danticat
Nearly 16,000 French police, gendarmes, troops, firefighters and border guards will be deployed, using boats, motorcycles and drones, alongside mounted police and dog-handling units, France's Haute-Savoie regional prefecture said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
Nearly 6,000 police and gendarmes have been deployed for security during the celebrations on Sunday.
From Barron's ● May 31, 2026
He said around 250,000 people drew a living from the trade in France – more than the entire number of police and gendarmes, which is 230,000.
From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2025
Eventually two French gendarmes spotted them through the undergrowth and walked, slowly, forwards.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
A week after we heard that he had been caught by the field gendarmes, those despicable military police.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
