Gendarmes Collection

(The Morning After of a Faun) Le Lendemain d un Faune (or, What an Afternoon ) - The Great success of the new ballet L Apres-Midi d un Faune in which the faun, failing to abduct the nymph herself

Bandit / Shot / France / 1891
Ex-con Boissin, resists arrest & is shot by the gendarmes

Man shows identity papers to gendarmes, September 1939
Man suspected of being a foreigner presents his papers of identity to two paramilitary police officers for inspection in Paris, shortly after the outbreak of war. Date: 1939

Place des Gendarmes and French church, Berlin
Gendarmenmarkt market square in Berlin. Date: 1834

GENDARMES DELITE
Gendarmes delite (soldiers, not police) Date: circa 1807

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 Soldiers Ca 1600
Two French soldiers of the time of Henri IV - an ARQUEBUSIER A PIED (foot arquebusier) and a CAPITAINE DE GENDARMES

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

French Police Cadets
French police cadets being trained in self defence at a police school in Paris, France. Date: 1930s

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, 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, 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

Renan Statue
When a statue of Ernest Renan is erected in the marketplace of Treguier, Bretagne, the populace object, and gendarmes have to intervene. Date: 1903

Trainee Gendarmes
French police cadets saluting and blowing whistles during a training session. Date: early 1930s

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

Spanish soldiers and gendarmes pose for a photograph

Clemenceau Visits Alsace
GEORGES CLEMENCEAU visiting Strasbourg and Alsace in November 1919

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