>>24128487
>is the city of NY a country?
so yer sayin' NYC is not part of the USA?
>No nation on earth had a police Force 150 years ago
you did NOT say NATIONAL police force
in keeping with your need to call me "idiot boy," you are STILL wrong
by five centuries
shall i dig a bit more
i'm willing to bet i can go back millennia
The Gendarmerie is the direct descendant of the Maréchaussée ("Marshalcy") of the ancien regime. The Maréchauzizihe Constable of France. The military policing responsibilities of the Marshal of France were delegated to the Marshal's provost, whose force was known as the Marshalcy because its authority ultimately derived from the Marshal. The Marshalcy dates back to the Hundred Years' War, with some historians tracing it back to the early 12th century.[1]
The second organisation, the Constabulary (Connétablie), was under the comm connar and of the Constable of France. The constabulary was regularised as a military body in 1337.[5]
In 1415 the Maréchaussée fought in the Battle of Agincourt and their commander, the Prévôt des Maréchaux (Provost of the Marshals), Gallois de Fougières, was killed in battle. This history was rediscovered in 1934, and Gallois de Fougières was then officially recorded as the first known gendarme to have died in the line of duty. His remains are now buried under the monument to the gendarmerie in Versailles.
Under King Francis I (r. 1515–1547), the Maréchaussée was merged with the Constabulary. The resulting force was also known as the Maréchaussée, or, formally, the Constabulary and Marshalcy of France (connétablie et maréchaussée de France).