gendarmerie

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A French navy ship and two gendarmerie patrol boats were stationed nearby.

From Barron's • Jan. 25, 2026

More than 2,000 firefighters and 500 firefighting vehicles continue to be deployed to the Aude region, alongside gendarmerie and army personnel, officials said on Thursday.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2025

Bertrand Cavallier, the former commander of France’s national gendarmerie training school, said French law enforcement should not be judged by the actions of one officer.

From Washington Times • Jul. 1, 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

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