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gendarme

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nounmasculine
  1. a member of the gendarmerie, a military body charged with police duties
  2. firebugthe insect
  3. landjägera type of sausage

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  • Quelquefois, quand le cardinal, toujours chevauchant comme le dernier gendarme de l’armée, promenait son regard pensif sur ces ouvrages, si lents au gré de son désir, qu’élevaient sous son ordre les ingénieurs qu’il faisait venir de tous les coins du royaume de France, s’il rencontrait un mousquetaire de la compagnie de Tréville, il s’approchait de lui, le regardait d’une façon singulière, et ne le reconnaissant pas pour un de nos quatre compagnons, il laissait aller ailleurs son regard profond et sa vaste pensée.Sometimes, when the cardinal, always riding like the last constable of the army, was walking his pensive gaze on these works, if slow at his desire, which the engineers whom he had brought from all corners of the kingdom of France raised under his command, if he met a Musketeer of the company of Treville, he approached him, looked at him in a singular way, and did not recognize him for one of our four companions, he allowed his deep gaze and vast thought to go elsewhere.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires

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