Half-an-hour later, a helicopter from the French Gendarmerie (we were in the French part of the Pyrenees) came around.

The rescue of the woman and her seven-day-old child was performed by French gendarmerie in Ivory Coast's war-torn main city, Abidjan.

And five hundred years later, the contributors to the great philosophic "Encyclopaedia" were under the constant supervision of the French gendarmerie.