The averagely ignorant foreigner, if he thinks about such matters at all, thinks of all French law officers as "gendarmes," whereas in fact the gendarmes are the rural constabulary, who operate outside the metropolitan districts which have their own police forces, whose officers are correctly called agents. ❋ Charteris, Leslie, 1907- (1983)
We begin the three-hour drive to Farchana with Claude, a retired Canadian marine in charge of overseeing the "gendarmes" - Chadians hired to provide security for refugee camps. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Major Smedley Butler was storming through the doors of the legislative hall, leading squads of gendarmes from the national police force that he had organized to maintain martial rule on the island. ❋ David Talbot (2010)
The losers called the gendarmes, and Mr. Smith spent the night in the drunk tank. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Villagers "stopped the mercenary, tied him up and called the gendarmes, who responded quickly," Maturafi said. ❋ Unknown (2001)
The one thing I omitted -- and I don't see how I missed it -- was to call the gendarmes there at Modane and denounce you to them. ❋ Marion Polk Angellotti (1936)
We have brought down a dozen gendarmes, that is all. ❋ George Sand (1840)
Amadou Diagne Niang, a resident of Podor who is the local correspondent for Le Soleil, the state-owned newspaper, said the paramilitary police, known as the gendarmes, ran out of tear gas. ❋ Unknown (2012)
The gendarmes were the political branch of the military police. ❋ Blacksmith (2010)
A few days after their arrival, on April 18, Mrs. Smith was arrested, and, guarded by 'gendarmes', conveyed towards the Italian frontier, to be confined, as La Garde told a Sicilian nobleman, the Marquis de Salvo, at ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)
By mid-afternoon, as many as 50,000 soldiers, police and gendarmes had abandoned Gbagbo, according to the head of the United Nations mission, Choi Young-jin. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Jews in France “felt” safe when their own gendarmes rounded them up (upon orders from the SS) but they were wrong, and they were sent to the camps. ❋ Unknown (2010)
America and other countries of the world gendarmes were involved ❋ Unknown (2009)
Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim - when he defends himself - as a criminal. — ❋ Unknown (2009)
He knew discipline and fear of authority, and from God down to the sergeant of gendarmes the only difference to him was the measure of slavish obedience which he rendered. ❋ Unknown (2010)
For that matter, three times the gendarmes arrested him for riotous behaviour, and three times his manager ceased from love-making long enough to pay the fines imposed by a needy colonial administration. ❋ Unknown (2010)
He bought out the old blind leper at the market, and sold breadfruit, plantains, and sweet potatoes at such cut-rates that the gendarmes were called out to break the rush of bargain-hunting natives. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Under a rule that will be unveiled Friday, people entering Vatican City will for the first time be required by gendarmes to declare whether they are carrying large sums of cash or other liquid assets, the person said. ❋ Stacy Meichtry (2011)