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

Alex Batty appeared to be keen to be taken to an embassy in a big French city, but the student decided to contact the gendarmerie, the French military police.

From BBC • Dec. 15, 2023

Police unions, a powerful political force in France, argued, though, that they should have broader authority to fight crime and rules that matched those of the gendarmerie, a French police force with military status.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2023

“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

Then there was the gendarmerie d'�lite, then the ordinary police, the myrmidons of Fouch� of Nantes—in fact, if we take Lord Rosebery literally, Napoleon had "half-a-dozen police agencies of his own."

From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe