The EOGN and the Training Ground for the Military Elite of Foreign Gendarmeries, the African Example

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  • Publié le 12 mai 2026, mis à jour le 12 mai 2026

Research Note Issue 117

By Amanin Tanoh, a researcher affiliated with the HiGeSeT Chair, a doctoral candidate at the Lorraine University Research Center for History 

"In 2025, the National Gendarmerie Military Academy (AMGN) will celebrate the 80th anniversary of its establishment in Melun. Since 1945, several generations of officers have graduated from this prestigious institution, long known as the National Gendarmerie Officers’ School (EOGN). The school began admitting foreign students as early as the Belle Époque, when the first academy for the force was established at the Schomberg Barracks of the Republican Guard in Paris to train its future officers. (...)"

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