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
After 35 years of digging, investigators determined that the suspect had worked as a gendarme in the Paris region between 1986 and 1994, and summoned 750 current or former officers for questioning this week.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 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
Almost 2,000 people were arrested on Thursday alone and 305 police officers and gendarmes were injured, according to the Interior Ministry.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The number of gendarmes patrolling the coast within Dieppe and further to nearly the Le Havre area have been increased, she said.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026
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
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
