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deathstardroid · 9 months

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Enemies now.

#disco elysium #harry du bois #judit minot #jean vicquemare #jeanjudit #harrier du bois #gendarme #precinct 41 #rcm #revachol #revachol citizens militia #character design #sketch #drawing #fan art #storyboard #animation

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illustratus · 6 months

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Elite Gendarme of the Imperial Guard by François Flameng

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fidjiefidjie · 3 months

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Bonjour, bonne journée ☕ 🛂

Contrôle de routine🗼Paris

Photo de Albert Monier 1950s

#photooftheday #photography #black and white #vintage #albert monier #paris #gendarme #policier #bonjour #bonne journée #fidjie fidjie

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jeanfrancoisrey · 7 months

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Masque africain…

#photography #original photography #original photography on tumblr #nature #insecte #gendarme #masque africain

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roscoe-conkling · 5 months

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A French military policeman sits on a ladder smoking his pipe, c. 1890s.

#mounted police #military police #gendarme

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hippography · 1 month

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France, 1720-1724. Louis XV.

From: THE VINKHUIJZEN COLLECTION OF MILITARY UNIFORMS, located in the THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY DIGITAL COLLECTIONS

#art #gendarme #Vinkhuijzen Collection of Military Uniforms #new york public library

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scurrile-histrion · 2 years

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Idk if anyone's talked about this before, but as a French person playing Disco Elysium in English, it really strikes me that people refer to Harry and Kim as "gendarmes".

Police is just police in French, and policeman is policier. Pig is poulet (chicken), and cop could be translated to flic.

DE doesn't use any of these French words, it uses "gendarme", which refers not to civil police (civil servants with guns) but to military police. Gendarmes means "people-at-arms". They're not your typical pig. They're fucking military. (more under the cut bc I'm having Thoughts)

It's so interesting that they use this specific word in the context of Revachol being a Zone of Control under the jurisdiction of the Coalition. The RCM was either formed by the Coalition to "restore order" or it was formed by the citizens of Revachol themselves, right?

So why is it interesting, you ask? Because unlike the police nationale, the gendarmerie nationale has military missions: deterrence and weapon control (which includes nuclear security!!!!!), they're in charge of protecting the territory, especially civilian and military critical points, from external and internal threats, etc. They also intervene in events of catastrophes, like natural or environmental disasters.

So, depending on which creation myth we choose to believe for the RCM: either the citizens of Revachol really wanted to have this militia that could get organised efficiently in the event of, say, a nuclear pile meltdown, or the Coalition really, really wanted to have the people of Revachol in a chokehold. Because, as a general rule, the police is terrifying, but the military are more equipped for actual warfare, yknow?

On a lighter note, one of the main differences between police and gendarmerie is that gendarmerie units are versatile and follow a vertical organisation, wheras police units are highly specialised and have a more horizontal organisation. So it might mean that Harry-boy deals w lots of different cases, even if they're all "major crimes", like infringement on the environment and the public health, hatred crimes, crimes against humanity, etc, which is interesting for his character imo.

(Also gendarmes have to be available at all times since they're military lol)

Sources [in French, but u can check the wikipedia pages for gendarmerie nationale and police nationale, they're ok]: x x x x

#disco elysium #I'm having so many thoughts and it's getting late #meta #gendarme #harry du bois #revachol meta #disco elysium meta #damn it's past midnight fuck this game for being this good #also acab #even gendarmes sorry i don't make the rules

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twoseparatecoursesmeet · 10 months

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Gendarme, 1951

#vintage #france #germany #border #gendarme #pennington

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smokygluvs · 10 months

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Michel Galabru - 1922-2016

If you grew up in Britain in the 70's, you'd have watched the "Carry-On" series of films. If you grew up in France, it was the "Gendarme" series. If, like me, you grew up in both, then you go a heady mix of both corny, knock-about comedies. The Gendarme series is where I came across the wonderful actor Michel Galabru.

A man who, to my mind, looked undressed without his cigar.

As time went on, his face got pudgier, the fleshy cheeks more pronounced and I just wanted him to lower himself onto me. As severe as he looks in this photo, he was better known for his madcap sense of humour.

He was also well known for his stage appearances. I saw him in Paris in "Bon Appetite, Messieurs" and he was marvellous (even if the play wasn't).

The smile, the white hair... Everything I could want.

There will be more. This man is too handsome for only one post.

#Michel Galabru #cigar smoker #French actor #comédien français #Gendarme

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swedebeast · 1 year

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Oh yeah, fuck, I didn’t tell you guys about the book I was reading when I had no internet, did I?

I was about “Swedes at war from WW1 to the modern day”, and it was a bit of a lie because it included several wars before 1914 in which Swedish volunteers were part of, but also sort of kind of Sweden itself. Not just the odd immigrant in the American Civil War, or the few Swedish sailors stuck in South Africa in the Second Boer War (in which their defeat came at the result of a last stand due to orders of retreat not reaching their group, and it received nation-wide attention back home), but also a military expedition to PERSIA.

1911 to 1915, it came about as Great Britain and Russia were competing for control of strategically important Persia, and local raiders and bandits was threatening British trade in the region so badly it was insisting on sending their own troops into the country. However, the nation of Persia - as it was called at the time - offered a compromise by inviting a neutral country to train its gendarme and military police. And so it asked Sweden. And they agreed.

But they didn’t have their own “gendarme” formations, so instead sent nearly 40 cavalry officers instead to train local talents. And they did a really good job, by all records, and Iran’s police agency can trace its structural and organizational origins to Swedish officers.

The most recent medal for “Valour in the Field” was awarded in 1915 to one of these guys.

#sweden #iran #persia #cavalry #gendarme #gendarmerie #gendarms

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deathstardroid · 1 year

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Lt. Kitsuragi and Patrol Officer Minot in pursuit.

#disco elysium #Kim Kitsuragi #judit minot #revachol citizens militia #rcm #precinct 41 #precinct 57 #ace's high #gendarme #jamrock #Character Design #sketch #drawing #fan art #storyboard #animation #motor carriage

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illustratus · 2 months

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Elite Gendarme of the Imperial Guard under the First Empire by François Flameng

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fidjiefidjie · 4 months

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Bonjour, bonne journée ☕️ 🛂

Gendarme dans les embouteillages 🗼Paris 1963

Photo de Alfred Eisenstaedt

#photooftheday #black and white #vintage #photo #alfred eisenstaedt #paris #gendarme #bonjour #bonne journée #fidjie fidjie

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jeanfrancoisrey · 9 months

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Gendarme sur rose trémière…

#photography #original photography #nature #corsedusud #original photography on tumblr #gendarme #rose trémière

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nando161mando · 10 months

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"Video published yesterday showing police and gendarme attack on parliamentary Green Left Party's co-spokesperson, deputies and other forest defenders in Akbelen, SW Turkey."

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philoursmars · 1 year

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Je reviens à mon projet de présenter la plupart de mes 55000 photos (nouveau compte approximatif. On se rapproche du présent !).

2015. A part la dernière (Longuenesse près de Saint-Omer (Pas-de-Calais), le reste est lors de la sortie scolaire de 6ème à Escaudain.

Des pyrrhocores (ou gendarmes), des cynorrhodons (ou ...gratte-cul, fruits de l’églantier), des champignons...

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