Gendarme Collection

Paris Flood - Rue de Bievre - 28th January 1910
Paris Flood - Rue de Bievre on 28th January 1910. The Maximum level of the flood waters was 9.5m above the normal level. Date: 1910

Caricature, illustration, gendarme, elegant, woman, struggling, street, scene, windy Paris, Stormy, Rencontre, hat, Mademoiselle, Blam, Edmund, Blampied, artist, illustrator, art, humorous, 1925

WW1 poster, Le Secours de Guerre (relief agency for war victims), showing a gendarme, soldiers and civilians near the Ancien Seminaire St Sulpice, the premises of the agency in Paris. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Channel swimmer asked for passport. 1923

Village weaver bird and nest, Ploceus cucullatus, and crane fly, Tipula species. Tipule, Tisserin gendarme. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Menevilles Dictionnaire

Guillard d Anville, author of La Chastete 1624
Guillard d Anville, gendarme de la reine to the wife of King Louis XIII, author of La Chastete 1624. Handcoloured lithograph after an engraved portrait from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroixs

Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours, in suit of armour 1489-1512
Gaston de Foix, Duke of Nemours, military commander in suit of armour with tonlet (armoured skirt) 1489-1512. Handcoloured lithograph by Leopold Massard after a portrait in Galerie des hommes

Gendarme or man of arms in suit of armour, 15th century. Handcoloured lithograph a figure in a contemporary manuscript in Roger de Gaignieres portfolio VIII 89 from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul

La Rue Ernestale - Arras, France Date: circa 1910s

French police interrogating a suspect
Interrogating a suspect, Paris Date: 1890

French police arrest fraudulent traders in Paris
Paris police arrest 237 fraudulent traders & other cheats in the boulevard du Temple Date: 1845

French police - a gendarme sergeant
A sergent de ville Date: 1850

Gendarmes / Police in a french village
Rural gendarmes in a village Date: 1850

French police - a rural gendarme
A rural gendarme Date: 1850

Parisian Officer directing traffic on Les Grand Boulevards
A French Traffic Gendarme with a VERY fine moustache and beard combo direct traffic at a junction on the Grand Boulevards, Paris at the Porte Saint-Denis. Date: circa 1920

WW1 - Heavy traffic - Rouen street - Confectioners Shop
WW1 - The influx of allied soldiers causing extra pedestrian traffic on a Rouen street, to the consternation of some of the locals - exacerbated here by the opening a popular confectioners shop

Cartoon, French boys gathering coal, WW1
Cartoon, French boys gathering stray pieces of coal during a supply crisis. One of them says he will sell a bag to an old gentleman he knows. Date: 1917

William Heath Robinson interrogated in France, WW1
An autobiographical sketch by William Heath Robinson, published in his memoirs, My Line of Life, illustrating an incident at St. Nazaire when he visited the American Army in France

French Soldiers 1610-40
Two French soldiers - a DRAGON and a GENDARME - during the reign of Louis XIII Date: 1610 - 1640

French police searching a suspect
Searching a suspect at a prefeture Date: 1869

International Exhibition, Paris, 1937 -- Kingdom of Liliput, Town Hall, with the Mayor and two Gendarmes. Date: 1937

French police training
Learning to distinguish facial characteristics of possible suspects at the Paris Prefecture Date: 1899

Cartoon, Round figures, WW1
Cartoon, Round figures. A French gendarme officiously challenges a civilian man about his age. The document says 47, but he is sure the man looks nearer 50. Date: 1916

Cartoon, Let them pass, WW1
Cartoon, Let them pass. Two French gendarmes in army uniform decide that these two ladies can be allowed through -- they can t possibly be German, as they are pretty and have delicate little feet

Cartoon, Delivering a letter, WW1
Cartoon, showing a French gendarme rather officiously delivering a letter to a colonel, feeling rather self-important to be part of the war effort. Date: 1916

Cartoon, He was phoning from the tobacco shop, WW1
Cartoon, He was phoning from the tobacco shop. A supposedly deaf and dumb man is caught on the telephone, arrested as a spy and escorted through the street, much to the delight of the children

French Gendarme - sketched from life by Phil May. Date: circa 1890s

Spanish Civil Wat. Gendarme watching over works of art

Traffic Gendarme
A Gendarme controlling the traffic, Paris, France. Date: late 1960s

Dieppe, France - La Place du Puits-Sale and the Rue de la Barre Date: circa 1910s

Archive service at Paris Peace Conference
Gendarme officers in the archive service of the Paris Peace Conference which followed the end of the First World War. It was their job to classify three tons of documents. Date: circa 1919

An Incroyable
A fancy dress costume from 1884, suggesting an Incroyable from 1798. She wears a short red, white and blue skirt, blue satin coat with tails and revers at throat; the lappet

Law / Court Scenes
IN A FRENCH COURT Acquitted !

WAGNER / LIEBIG / 4 / 1861
RICHARD WAGNER German composer in 1861, as his opera Tannhauser causes riots in the streets of Paris

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