Alse-Lorraine developed a strong "home rule" movement in the 1920's and unsuccessfully sought autonomy within the french republic
Both European Societies and Japanese Samurais had and hereditary system of classes. The warriors were the most important class in both of them, in Japan called samurai and in Europe called knights that served the lords of the local, and had some codes about moral an ethic.
Knights had a military rank, Samurais did not.
To adopt governments & align with the west