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Definition of Gendarmes
1. gendarme [n] - See also: gendarme
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gendarmes
Literary usage of Gendarmes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the French Revolution by Adolphe Thiers, Frederic Shoberl (1866)
"The gendarmes then surrounded them for the purpose of conducting them back to
their prison. One of the condemned suddenly fell at their feet. ..."
2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"•THE QUICK, SHARP TONES OF AUTHORITY OF TWO MOUNTED gendarmes' It was for this
that the shambles liad been prepared, with the butchers in waiting. ..."
3. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"No Armenian can travel in these parts, for every Moslem, and especially the
brigands and gendarmes, considers it his duty now to kill them at sight. ..."
4. The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle (1838)
"He bursts towards the Tuileries Committee-room, " to speak with Robespierre: "
with difficulty, the Ushers and Tuileries gendarmes, earnestly pleading and ..."
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