gendarme

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Having lived 24 years in France I have never been asked to produce ID by the police or gendarmes.

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a French policeman

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noun

a French policeman

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for gendarme.

noun

a French policeman

Example sentences

Having lived 24 years in France I have never been asked to produce ID by the police or gendarmes.

When national service was still compulsory, young people could even choose to do it as a gendarme.

The failure of gendarme knights at Mohács is probably the most salient point to the original topic.

Well, it's just quite a different attitude from what you get in France, for instance, where, eg, the gendarmes use open source heavily.

That's true, but to me lumping in the gendarme with firefighters and EMS is pretty Orwellian language engineering.

Although the gendarme look as if they are in with the government the majority of the military look as if they're going to sit this one out while quietly supporting the protests.

So why did they still field the forces they did?If my understanding is correct, the existence of gendarme knights was deeply entwined not only with the concept of nobility in Europe, but with the economic foundations of Feudalism.

For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited--or even to remain idle and go hungry when it is not in the interest of the bosses to exploit them.