Like its French predecessor, the palace was intended to display the power and grandeur of an absolute Bourbon monarchy.

He also knew that his French predecessors had been overthrown because of the country's economic woes; the massive rebuilding of Paris would provide employment to whole armies of workers.

Mollet's French predecessors in the art of gardening:

Malory presents Guinevere in a more negative light than his French predecessors.

He also contributed a great deal to the study of pedagogy, arguing for the pedagogical importance of the explication de texte, the French predecessor of close reading.

Luccioni had an impressively large voice that combined beauty with power, in the tradition of his great French predecessor at the Paris Opéra, Paul Franz (1876-1950).

In completing William of Sens's work, he showed that he was more deeply influenced than his French predecessor by contemporary Continental developments.

Feature films also seem enchanted by this scenario, as can be seen in "Three Men and a Baby" and its French predecessor.

When the Empire of Vietnam was proclaimed, the Japanese retained direct control of Cochinchina, in the same way as their French predecessors.