History Film / LeGendarmeDeSaintTropez

** Fougasse (Jean Lefebvre) in the early films.

* ''Film/LeGendarmeSeMarie'' (''The Gendarme Gets Married'', 1968): Cruchot meets Josépha, a widow and they quickly fall in love. But [[ParentWithNewParamour Cruchot's daughter doesn't like Josépha]] and is determined to prevent the wedding by all means necessary.

* OverprotectiveDad: Cruchot is very protective towards his daughter Nicole. He does not want her to wear revealing clothes and wants her to go to bed very early.

* OverprotectiveDad: Cruchot is very protective towards his daughter Nicole in the first three installments.

Ludovic Cruchot (De Funès), a meddlesome sergeant from a gendarmerie brigade ([[UsefulNotes/LesCopsSportif a French police force]]), has been re-assigned to the Mediterranean seaside commune and fashionable resort of Saint-Tropez on the French Riviera, under the orders of Chief Adjudant Gerber (Creator/MichelGalabru). He is tasked to hunt down and arrest [[UsefulNotes/{{Nudism}} nudists]]. Meanwhile, a Rembrandt painting has been stolen.

* ChekhovsGun: The yacht. At first, it is just a big boat that Nicole admires in the marina, so she pretends to be the daughter of its owner. It gets important later, when his friends want to go on board, which puts her in an awkward position, and still more important when it is revealed that it is the den of the thieves who stole the painting.

The film was very successful (to the point of becoming perhaps the most iconic role of De Funès) and spawned five sequels over two decades:

* ''Film/LeGendarmeSeMarie'' (''The Gendarme Gets Married'', 1968): Cruchot meets Josépha, a [[WidowWoman widow]] and they quickly fall in love. But [[ParentWithNewParamour Cruchot's daughter doesn't like Josépha]] and is determined to prevent the wedding by all means necessary.

The film was very successful and has spawned five sequels over two decades:

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Nicole (Geneviève Grad), Cruchot's daughter, in the first three installment. She does not obey her father and she does many stupid things, like pretending her father is a millionaire or stowing away to New York.

* BrattyTeenageDaughter: Nicole (Geneviève Grad), Cruchot's daughter, who gets herself and her father in serious troubles because she prentended to be a millionaire's daughter.

* ChekhovsGun: The yacht. At first, it is just a big boat that Nicole admires in the marina, so she prentends to be the daughter of its owner. It gets important later, when his friends want to go on board, which puts her in an awkward position, and still more important when it is revealed that it is the den of the thieves who stole the painting.

* ContrivedCoincidence: Nicole prentends that she is the daughter of the owner of a yacht. This yacht happens to be the den of the thieves who stole the painting.

* WealthyYachtOwner: {{Exploited|Trope}} by Nicole. She wants to impress the youth of Saint-Tropez, so she prentends to be the daughter of the owner of a yacht that lies at anchor in the port. The owner of the yacht is actually a rich mob boss.

** Sister Clotilde (France Rumilly), a ''[[PluckyGirl very enthusiastic]]'' nun who rides either a sidecar or a [[TheAllegedCar Citroën 2CV]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhTw0zGbkwI Just watch]]. By the way, she's ''myopic''.

** Cruchot towards Gerber and other high ranking people, while at the same time being odious to underlings.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPAY: Yes, it is indeed (the z is silent). In ''Film/LeGendarmeEnBalade'', there is even a gag with Fougasse being unable to pronounce "Saint-Tropez" right.

* ''Film/LeGendarmeEtLesGendarmettes'' (''The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes'', 1982): [[TheSquadette Four young and beautiful female police officers]] come to learn from the old gendarmes but it turns out they are coping much better with problems than their teachers (the fact that the entire old male brigade is DistractedByTheSexy doesn't help). Things get hotted up when the "gendarmettes" are kidnapped one by one.

* ShoutOut: At the climax, Cruchot ends up dressed for a quick gag like the hero of ''Series/ThierryLaFronde'' (a French TV series of the same period, basically a Gallic version of Myth/RobinHood) along with the iconic music of said show.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: Arresting the nudists is SeriousBusiness for the gendarmes. At first, they fail and it makes Gerber suffer from HeroicBSOD So, Cruchot gives the other gendarmes an intensive combat training to prepare them for this task. The operation itself looks like a commando raid. When they succeed, they parade in front a Gerber with their prisoners.

* LineInTheSand: {{Parodied|Trope}}. Cruchot tells the gendarmes that he need a volunteer. All the men step forward. Cruchot then tells that the mission is to go naked among the nudists and all the men step backward.

* WealthyYachtOwner: {{Exploited|Trope}} by Nicole. She wants to impress the youth of Saint-Tropez, so she prentends to be the daughter of the owner of a yatch that lies at anchor in the port. The owner of the yatch is actually a rich mob boss.

* MistakenForBadass: The thieves think they are the target of a skilled and somehow sadistic hustler. In reality, a friend of Nicole goes away with the car containing the stolen painting, because he thinks it is her father's. Cruchot bring them back the car without the painting because he threw it away carelessly when he was looking for the spare wheel. Finally, Cruchot displays the painting right in front of them because a farmer who found it brought it back to him.

* SharpDressedMan: Cruchot wears a white suit and a white cowboy hat to impersonate an American millionaire.

* ManInWhite: Cruchot wears a white suit and a white cowboy hat to impersonate an American millionaire.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aIm52lxrkU "La Marche des Gendarmes"]]

* HelloNurse: Nicole (Geneviève Grad), Cruchot's daughter, when she goes out of the police office in very revealing clothes. All the gendarmes are staring at her through their windows. Their wives do not appreciate.

[[caption-width-right:300:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aIm52lxrkU "La Marche des Gendarmes"]] (EarWorm warning)]]

%% * BrattyTeenageDaughter: Nicole (Geneviève Grad), Cruchot's daughter, in the first three installment.

* TheSixties: Nicole and her friends are typical 60s teenagers (music, fashion...).