It had swept the streets clear, for not a soul was to be seen except a couple of sergentsde ville, all hooded in capes, and a cab that came rattling through the murk with horses a-steam.
Then a squad of twenty sergents de ville suddenly emerging from a narrow street rushed with drawn swords upon the men who were carrying the litters, and overturned the corpses into the mud.
The door, however, was violently shut, and there ensued between the Representatives and the sergents de ville who hastened up, a species of struggle, in which a Representative had his wrist sprained.
At Marie's, it may be remembered that the sergents de ville and the gendarmes arrived ten minutes after we had left the house, and that they even ransacked under the beds with their bayonets.
Some sergents de ville came running up, and a few minutes afterwards a squadron of Lancers emerged at a sharp trot from the Rue du Nord.
Day had broken, the four sergents de ville inhaled the outside air and gazed at the passing country through a species of port-hole which borders each side of the ceiling of the passage.
Numerous squads of sergents de ville installed themselves in the terminus.
There was a fiacre in the courtyard, into which he entered, together with the three sergents de ville.
The sergents de ville ventured to put in a word here and there.
Suddenly, he perceives himself and his companions surrounded by a company of sergents de ville; a man touches his arm and says to him, "You are Cournet; I arrest you.
At a turning in the Rue St Antoine he glanced behind, and noticed that the sergents de ville only followed the fiacre at a considerable distance.
He had scarcely spoken these words when a man in plain clothes and three sergents de ville in uniform rushed into his chamber.
From eleven o'clock in the evening, under pretext of the arrivals of refugees at Paris from Genoa and London, the Brigade of Surety and the eight hundred sergents de ville had been retained in the Prefecture.
The brigadier Revial, who commanded the squad of the sergents de ville, received the Cross of Honor for this deed of arms.
Is one eager to go shooting at this time of night, for the sheer fun of explaining to sergents de ville that one has been attacked by Apaches?
Approaching the Porte Dauphine he became aware of two sergents de ville standing in the middle of the way and wildly brandishing their arms.
The same sergentsde ville are stationed in the same quarter of the town, so that they become more or less intimately acquainted with their neighbours and charges.
The sergents de ville in the story below you," cried Poiret, "are going to defend themselves, They are making a barricade across the door of their corridor.
It was proposed to make a hole in the floor, and so to communicate with the sergents de ville.
Ferré, "they are only women belonging to gendarmes and sergents de ville; we shall be well rid of them.
Orders were sent at once to Mazas to send the archbishop, the priests, Senator Bonjean, suspected spies, and sergents de ville to that part of the prison of La Roquette reserved for condemned criminals.
The stout fellows with their clubs look as if they might do service; but what a contrast they are to the Paris sergents de ville!
Gardiens de la Paix is now the official title of the efficient Paris policemen, who were formerly known as Sergents de Ville, under which title their corps was organized in 1829.
It was not until late in the morning that Clara Kingscott was let out of the cell in the police-station, where she had been locked up, and was taken to be examined before Monsieur le Chef des sergents de ville.
His sergents de ville knew their duty too well to allow it; but still he interrogated Mademoiselle, and put down the answers she gave to his various questions in his note book.
It was her design to avoid the customary routes to the heart of the city, and all would have gone well with them had not fate in the shape of two burly sergents de ville intervened at a time when success seemed most certain.
Two dejected young men were standing before the Judge, flanked by three sergents de ville.
Whereupon the group of sergents de ville trooped in behind, bringing with them the neatly liveried servants with the golden letter L on their cuffs.
The committee insisted no more: they helped harness the sergents de ville.
If we make haste, we shall just have time to deal with the sergents de ville.
They had released the convicts--the thieves and murderers who had been in prison long before the Commune made special prisoners of its own--and had enlisted them as willing allies against their natural enemies, the sergents de ville.
Until then I had supposed that a prison was the safest place in Paris in which a sergentsde ville could find himself; but since this was not so, I knew how to act.
Tearing off my red sash, and borrowing a helmet and a tunic from one of the sergents de ville, I reappeared and resumed my friendly greeting.
The sergents de ville greeted him with shouts of welcome.
The rest of the room packed with a crowd of revolutionists, women as well as men, all talking loudly at once, and a few sergents de ville among them, disarmed and overmastered, but unable to escape.
And were there not forty-two sergents de ville supporting it with their weight upon the other side?
The sergents de ville were losing heart and energy.
Well, now, shall we turn him over to the sergentsde ville?
A couple of sergents de ville were on duty close by, a circumstance which suggested to me the opportunity of getting even with my insubordinate men.
On the arrival of the band, I learnt afterwards, they were confronted by four sergentsde ville, the two original ones having been reinforced.
Hasparren with her shabby coat buttoned crookedly, who ran up the stairs as the sergents de ville went down, who came in without a word of explanation to take charge of things.
The doctor was on one side; on the other was Isabelle, half frightened and half delighted with the excitement; a visit from gallant sergents de ville, and from the doctor all in one day!
They aresergents de ville, says my right-hand neighbour; but he on my left says they are Pontifical Zouaves.
From what I hear the gendarmes and sergents de ville had fought their way as far as the Rue des Huissiers.
A runaway, seated outside a café amidst a group of eager questioners, recounts that the barricade at the Neuilly bridge has been attacked by sergents de ville dressed as soldiers, and Pontifical Zouaves carrying a white flag.
The sergents de ville who are below are disposed to defend themselves,” cried the warden Pinet, whom the hesitation rendered more energetic and more eloquent.
The first story was occupied by about forty Parisian guardsmen, prisoners of the Commune; the second story by a somewhat larger number of sergents de ville, who were found at Montmartre in the affair of the eighteenth of March.
The sergents de ville were ready to pay dearly for their lives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sergents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
