I came across this term regularly when reading a novel by A.Bakunin
2006-09-16 03:54:43 · 20 answers · asked by Beaulieu 04 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
French Police Officer.
2006-09-16 03:56:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a French word and originally meant simply "man of arms", i.e. an armed man : gen (man) + d'arme (weapon). It became the body of men employed by the French aristocracy to control the peasants, this was the world's first organised police force back in the 1600's.
But you mention you're reading Bakunin so there's more. He was brought up, educated, and trained as a professional soldier but became an anarchist i.e. believed in a community without rulers. So your question's really much more interesting, "What is a gendarme to Bakunin?" We'll have to read the book.
2006-09-16 13:42:59 · answer #2 · answered by Prettywoman 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A military police officer belonging to a gendarmerie. The word is often incorrectly used in English to refer to any French policeman. A gendarmerie is a military body charged with police duties among civilian populations. The members of such a body are called gendarmes.
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2006-09-16 11:45:02 · answer #3 · answered by capenafuerte 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
French Policeman?
2006-09-16 10:56:20 · answer #4 · answered by tfd 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a French policeman
it comes from the French for men at arms
the French have both 'police' and 'gendarmes'
'police tend to work in the bigger towns
2006-09-16 10:58:29 · answer #5 · answered by used to live in Wales 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A French letter
2006-09-16 11:06:47 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The French police.
2006-09-16 10:55:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's a French Policeman.
2006-09-18 08:50:05 · answer #8 · answered by samanthajanecaroline 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
French police
2006-09-16 11:03:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
French term for a policeman.
2006-09-16 11:02:37 · answer #10 · answered by synchronicity915 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋