gendarmerie
Example Sentences
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A bike racing controversy that doesn’t involve a rogue doctor and a midnight raid by the gendarmerie?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
A French navy ship and two gendarmerie patrol boats were stationed nearby.
From Barron's ● Jan. 25, 2026
"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
The next day, at vespers, the Count de Meghem confessed to the handsome goodwife how that he had determined to fetch the gendarmerie he commanded into Bois-le-Duc before daybreak.
From The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Charles Th?odore Henri de Coster
