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 and Sweden, homosexual activity was legal but socially frowned upon in Poland, and he undertook relationships with a number of men in Warsaw.

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 most immigrants, he began modestly.

Like many Chinese immigrants, they came to " Gold Mountain " to work as miners, or found work as laundrymen and cooks.

Like many other struggling immigrant communities, Catholics developed organizations to fight discrimination and provide insurance for the struggling immigrants.

Like Cincinnati, Hamilton had many German and Italian immigrants, whose influence showed in culture, architecture and food.

Like many other cities and towns in the region, Carbondale has struggled with the demise of the once-prominent coal mining industry that had once made the region a haven for immigrants seeking work so many decades ago.

Like most immigrants, many of the new arrivals were poor and uneducated and, at first, spoke little or no English.

Like many American towns, Plymouth had an ethnically diverse population, formed largely by the descendants of Irish, Welsh, Polish, Lithuanian and Slovakian immigrants.

Like many immigrants, she worked in a clothing factory during the day, but was able to attend night high school.

Like most other White Star Liners, these three ships were born of a special effort by the White Star Line to attract more immigrants by treating them with respect and making their crossings pleasurable.

Like Canadian football and ice hockey in Vancouver, full of Asian immigrants, Auckland is finding itself increasingly marginalised on sports traditionally identified with New Zealand culture, such as rugby and netball, because of high immigrant numbers from countries with little tradition of such sports.

Like many Chinese immigrants, they came to " Gold Mountain " to work as miners, or found work as laundrymen and cooks.

Like much of the surrounding area, Westport received a large number of Irish immigrants in the 1840s through the 1860s, following the Great Famine.

Like nearby Lowertown, Ottawa's Vanier neighbourhood is home to a number of French-speaking immigrants from Africa and elsewhere.

Like the traditional Chinatown in Manhattan, Brooklyn's Chinatown was originally settled by Cantonese immigrants.

Like its close relative the Large White this is a strong flyer and the British population is increased by continental immigrants in most years.

Like most non-Western immigrants, most Muslims live in the four major cities of the country, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht.

Like many Italian grapes, Trebbiano came to Argentina with Italian immigrants.

Like earlier absoption policies, both Master Plans were based on the assumption that the new immigrants were broadly similar to Israel's existing majority population.

) Like other immigrants, the Irish revolutionaries carried their issues to the United States.

Like its other sister schools, Manhattan International and Bronx International, Kingsbridge was implemented to help new immigrants in New York learn English through various projects.

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 many of the grandest summer residents of Newport, Edward Berwind was " new money " ( his parents were middle-class German immigrants ); by 1900 his friends included Theodore Roosevelt and Kaiser Wilhem II of Germany as well as many high-ranking government leaders from Europe and America.

The immigrants struggle with the language barrier as they try to communicate with Reverend Jackson (" To Think That Men Like Him Can Exist ").

Like many other Orthodox immigrants, they were predominantly young, illiterate, male peasants.