The Gendarme collection is a series of French comic films created by Jean Girault and Richard Balducci, starring Louis de Funès as the protagonist Ludovic Cruchot, a sergeant of the gendarmerie. The story focuses on the every-day life of the police troop of Saint-Tropez - a fashionable seaside town located on the French Riviera. Six films were released in a period of eighteen years, starting in 1964.
