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After the Gestapo arrested my father in Nice in 1943, he was escorted by French gendarmes to the transit camp at Drancy, in the Paris suburbs, before being deported to Auschwitz.
"By God!" exclaimed Widow Désir, slapping her thighs with both hands, "it's the fault of the gendarmes!
For her, all authorities and masters were gendarmes; it was a term of general contempt in which she enveloped all the enemies of the people.
The gendarmes will have to pass over my body if they do come!"
The gendarmes!"
Four gendarmes accompanied him.
In order to cover it, Widow Désir had propped herself up against the door, which the butt-ends of the gendarmes' muskets were forcing at her back.
And he then went away with his four gendarmes to prepare a report, beneath the jeers of Zacharie and Mouquet, who were full of admiration for the way in which their mates had humbugged this armed force, for which they themselves did not care a hang.
The Levaque, with her fists to her hips, was setting to with Philoméne, whom she accused of having laughed; Mouquette talked of attacking the gendarmes by kicking them somewhere; Mother Brulé, who had just slapped Lydie on finding her without either basket or salad, went on launching blows into space against all the masters whom she would like to have got at.
Up till nine o'clock they stood peacefully about, in good humour, before their houses, following with their eyes up the streets the meek backs of the last gendarmes.
His only regret was that he had not four gendarmes here to sweep away this mob.
But the rumour ran along that there were gendarmes at Saint-Thomas, the gendarmes of the morning whom they had made fun of.
Besides, the gendarmes would come; it was impossible that he should be thus abandoned.
the gendarmes are coming!"
"Don't I tell you the gendarmes are coming!
Immediately a voice arose: "The gendarmes!
the gendarmes!
The gallop of the gendarmes heavily approached; they came up in an indistinguishable sombre mass.
Rasseneur, also, was nearly arrested by two gendarmes.
In the corridors one heard the heavy boots of the gendarmes walking past, and like a far-off noise great locks that were shut.
He was charmed with the gendarmes, his travelling companions.
The following morning at nine o'clock, when Julien came down from his prison to enter the great hall of the Law Courts, it was with the utmost difficulty that the gendarmes succeeded in clearing a passage through the immense crowd that packed the courtyard.
As the cry was not repeated, everyone turned back to look at Julien, for whom the gendarmes were trying to clear a passage through the crowd.
They saw at the same moment, suddenly and distinctly: gendarmes, prison, assize-court and guillotine.
When they searched us students, and gendarmes read our letters, I was ready to defend with all my power my right to education and liberty.
Pendant ce colloque, le général Conti faisait de la dignité de plus en plus offensée avec les gendarmes.
La comtesse faisait marcher les gendarmes comme s’ils eussent été ses gens.
je pourrais le compromettre avec les gendarmes !
J’ai un passeport, mais j’aimerais mieux ne pas parler aux gendarmes, qui peuvent avoir connaissance du fait.
Car je dois me préserver des gendarmes, et la pauvre femme ne veut pas se séparer de moi.