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
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
Dinghies used by migrants to try to cross the channel are seen at the French gendarme brigade in Marquise, France, August 20, 2020.
From Reuters ● Jul. 23, 2021
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 knocked on every door," said Boisvert, adding they left by car with their two children, aged five and two.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
Nearly 6,000 police and gendarmes have been deployed for security during the celebrations on Sunday.
From Barron's ● May 31, 2026
The Jubillar mystery began at the height of Covid lockdown when – in the early hours on 16 December 2020 – Cédric Jubillar contacted the gendarmes to report that his wife had gone missing.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2025
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
