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Gendarmes. French Gendarmes in the Italian Wars early to mid sixteenth century These men represent the return of the knight now called Gendarme to mounted combat By the middle of the sixteenth century they would abandon the lance in favor of pistols and during the seventeenth century the heavy cavalryman would progressively shed