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‘The Most Efficient Way to Maintain…Tranquillity’: Gendarmes in Napoleonic France [PDF]

, 1999
This chapter discusses the importance of gendarmes in maintaining tranquility in Napoleonic France. Napoleon Bonaparte believed that gendarmes were of much more use than mounted men in mountainous districts and those regions broken up by rivers and other
Clive Emsley, Emsley Clive
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Le Gendarme Citron

The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 2015
From the dawn of French colonisation, the Melanesians of New Caledonia have been the object of ethnographic enquiry, categorisation and display.
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Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews

Between May and July 1944, over 440,000 Jews were deported from the Hungarian provinces to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where 330,000 perished. Gendarmes, Bureaucrats, and Jews offers a fresh perspective on these events, examining not only the Nazi regime but also the complicity of the Hungarian state, particularly its Gendarmerie, in ...
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Nederlandse gendarmes

2018
A history of the Dutch ...
Meershoek, Augustinus J.J., Smeets, Jos
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Variations: Landjägers and Gendarmes

1999
AbstractThis chapter discusses the contrast between the different national corps in the 19th century. The German Gendarmerie were intended to be rural police while the Prussian Gendarmerie remained a small force throughout the 19th century. One key difference between the French Gendarmerie and its German namesake was in their distribution across the ...
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Cinégénie du gendarme ? La série du Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

Sociétés & Représentations, 2003
Résumé Pendant longtemps, le cinéma français a surtout utilisé le gendarme comme un figurant. La sortie du Gendarme de Saint-Tropez , en 1964, a modifié cette situation. La starification de Louis de Funès a permis à la figure du gendarme d’acquérir une plus grande visibilité dans la société française des années soixante, jusqu’à en faire un héros ...
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"Cinégénie du gendarme ? La série du Gendarme de Saint-Tropez", Figures de gendarmes

2003
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Stabilizing a Colonial Order: Gendarmes, Grands Chefs, and Petits Chefs

Cambridge Imperial and Post-colonial Studies Series, 2022
Merle Isabelle, Muckle Adrian, Adrian Muckle   +2 more
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The Gendarmes on the Road

2021
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