It&#x27;s called a state. It has a monopoly on violence. It doesn&#x27;t take kindly to competition.<p>(Stupid question warrants a stupid answer. Other than the fact that you&#x27;re relying on a fallacy of evoking a nostalgic period that probably never was, there&#x27;s the whole matter of the French government ordering a curfew on its citizens for them to stay inside. As such, your scenario of French men taking up arms is explicitly <i>forbidden</i> by the government, and will likely get you killed if you attempted it.)