Like in France, immigrants from these countries started to study and live in Belgium.

Like so many others, Étienne was eventually forced to flee Paris because of his opposition to the fiscal policies of Cardinal Richelieu, leaving his three children in the care of his neighbor Madame Sainctot, a great beauty with an infamous past who kept one of the most glittering and intellectual salons in all France.

Like von Seeckt, he concluded that France could no longer maintain the huge armies of conscripts and reservists with which World War I had been fought, and sought to use tanks, mechanised forces and aircraft to allow a smaller number of highly trained soldiers to have greater impact in battle.

Like the German Navy, the German Army used Zeppelins as airships for bombing military and civilian targets in France and Belgium as well as the United Kingdom.

Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department.

Like his immediate predecessors, he was devoted to France, and he demonstrated his French sympathies by refusing a solemn invitation to return to Rome from the city's people, as well as from the poet Petrarch.

Like any sport Federations in France, the French and International Federation of Savate are under the control of France Ministry of Sport and Youth.

Like Ireland, France became well known for its butter, particularly in Normandy and Brittany.

Like France, villages in Lebanon are usually located in remote mountainous areas.

Like Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico, Our Lady of Lourdes is a major Catholic symbol in France.

Like the Jews, the Lombard bankers were expelled from France and their property expropriated.

Like the Count of Flanders, Edward in his role as the ruler of Gascony owed homage to the king of France, but as a king in his own right, and as the head of a largely autonomous Gascon province, was disinclined to do so.

Like the other overseas departments, Réunion is also one of the 27 regions of France ( being an overseas region ) and an integral part of the Republic with the same status as those situated on the European mainland.

Like other cultural areas in France, sport is overseen by a government ministry, the Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports ( France ) which is in charge of national and public sport associations, youth affairs, public sports centers and national stadia ( like the Stade de France ).

Like much of southwestern France, the summers tend to be warmer and the winters milder than most areas of similar classification.

Like his contemporary King Louis XIV of France, Moulay Ismail began construction of an elaborate imperial palace and other monuments.

Like late -' 50s Lincolns and Mercurys and the Citroën Ami of France, the car sported a backward-slanted rear window ( so that it would remain clear in rain, according to contemporary marketing claims ).

" Like many young men of upper-crust American society, he volunteered to serve in World War I with the American Field Service in France.

Like Toussaint L ' Ouverture, Dessalines encouraged merchants from Britain and the United States over those from France.

Like John Vanbrugh, Wycherley spent some years of his adolescence in France, where he was sent, at fifteen, to be educated in the heart of the " precious " circle on the banks of the Charente.

Like other gens de couleur libres ( free people of color ) with wealthy fathers, Pétion was sent to France in 1788 to be educated and study at the Military Academy in Paris.

Like the huldra in Norway and Sweden, they are hollow when seen from the back.

Like other European nations, Sweden tried to protect and promote its national interests during the Finnish Civil War and World War I.

Like the other Nordic countries Sweden has a high rate of gun ownership, due to the popularity of hunting.

Like in Sweden and Finland, these vehicles in continental Europe will run a 60 ton weight limit.

Like the northern parts of Sweden ( colloquial Norrland ), it is scarsely populated due to its inhospitable conditions and cold climate, but is superb for those who like wildlife and untouched nature.

Their first Fontana single, Dylan's " Just Like a Woman ", released in July, scraped in the UK top ten, reaching number one in Sweden.

Like many other workers ' leaders of his generation, such as Hjalmar Branting in Sweden, Stauning was a charismatic leader who played an important role in integrating Danish society after the social changes following the Industrial Revolution and common suffrage.

Like Sweden, John II Casimir was also looking for allies to break the deadlock of the war.

Like the Dutch colony it aimed to squat, New Sweden was a multicultural affair, with Finns, Dutch, Walloons ( Belgians ) and Germans as well as Swedes among the settlers.

Like the Thirty Years ' War which also involved Sweden, under the surface, the dynastic struggles were rooted firmly in religious strife between Protestants and Roman Catholics.

* Thieves Like Us ( band ), a New York and Sweden based electronica music group

" Like a Boy " was released as the second international single which reached within the top twenty in the UK, Finland, France, Ireland, Sweden Switzerland, and also in the United States.

Like many other Wallenberg relatives, Knut Agathon Wallenberg was also involved in Swedish politics and diplomacy becoming Minister for Foreign Affairs 1914 – 1917, and member of the Riksdags first chamber ( Parliament of Sweden ) 1907 – 1919.

Bleed Like Me also debuted in the Top Tens in Australia, Greece, France, Sweden, Japan, Hong Kong, Belgium and Canada.

* ABBA-1982 last recording sessions in studio " You Owe Me One ", " Just Like That ", " I Am the City ", " Cassandra ", " Under Attack ", " The Day Before You Came " & ABBA last performances in Sweden 19 November 1982 on the TV programme " Nöjesmaskinen " and on 11 December 1982 UK Noel Edmonds " The Late, Late Breakfast Show ".

Like all publicly funded higher education in Sweden, there is no tuition fee.

Like their Norwegian American and Danish American brethren, many Swedes sought out the agrarian lifestyle they had left behind in Sweden, as many immigrants settled on farms throughout the Midwest.

Like its predecessor, the Volvo Bv 202, the Bv 206 is designed to carry troops and equipment through snow and bog-lands in northern Sweden.

Like the rest of the band, Almqvist hails from Fagersta, a small town in central Sweden with about 11, 000 residents.

Like a large number of men, I, too, have had homosexual experiences and I am not ashamed.

In his 1995 autobiography Take It Like a Man, Boy George discusses how he had felt an affinity towards Crisp during his childhood, as they faced similar problems as young homosexual people living in homophobic surroundings.

* People Like Us, a gay slang denoting homosexual individuals, commonly used in Malaysia and Singapore

Like Guy Burgess, Blunt was known to be homosexual, which was a criminal activity at that time in Britain.

Like in Ancient Rome, homosexual relationships were prevalent in ancient China and were not regarded as morally deviant prior to the influence of foreign cultures.

Like Pratt, Haggard committed suicide on a train from Cairo to Palestine, but in Haggard's case it followed the end of a relationship with a beautiful Egyptian woman, rather than unrequited homosexual love.

Like the composer, Golitsyn was homosexual ; but unlike the composer, he lived openly with his lover, Nikolay Vasilyevich Masalitinov ( d. 1884 ).

Like his brother, Modest was homosexual.

Like many Protestant churches, the LCA " does not condemn nor judge homosexuality and claims the Bible is silent on homosexual orientation.

Like all homosexuals in public life at the time, he kept it secret because male homosexual behaviour was a criminal offence in the UK.

Like much of Renault's fiction, the book, published in 1972, provides a sympathetic portrait of homosexual love.