french colonization

Alright, so when the Panama Canal was being built, the first attempt began in 1879, when a French company headed by Ferdinand de Lesseps of Suez Canal fame got the rights to do so from the Colombian government. This company ran into a myriad of problems: bad engineering (they wanted to build a...

Prologue: The French In a Whole New World From top to bottom, the colonization of the Americas impacted almost every single country in western Europe. France was no exception to this rule. Resources from the New World caused France to eventually become one of the richest and most powerful...

After Charlesbourg-Royal was abandoned in 1543, I found it somewhat odd that there wasn't another French attempt to settle in Canada until 1598 at Sable Island. The first successful attempt was not until 1599 with Tadoussac. To put it in perspective, the second Roanoke colony was settled in 1587...

In 1563, Jean Ribault had fled to England after the French Wars of Religion broke out the previous year. In London, he made a convincing pitch to Queen Elizabeth I for England to become the Patron of the attempted Huguenot colonies in North America which Ribault initially sailed to. However, not...

Like it says on the tin. Say that one of the colonies France tried to set up in the 16th century IOTL (France Antarctique, Fort Caroline and Charlesfort) not only survives but becomes a safe haven for Huguenots fleeing the French Wars of Religion. How would the monarchy/government react? Would...

Otl, the downfall of New France was its minuscule population compared to the 13 colonies and what would be canada. So what if France took a page out of the British book and lets those who want to, head off to the new world? I imagine a good POD would be a proof of concept for the Hugonot...

So i kinda wanna do a tl about a pax francia/a francophonic new world at least, but I'm unsure how to do it pod wise. How do we get it so that the French colonial empire is the strongest in the americas, and what sort of effects could this have? I know I want to give France either mexico or...

1794-1805 Departing from France during the bloody Reign of Terror, three ships full of nobles, clergymen, and terrified members of the third estate who wished to flee the turmoil. The three ships, bought from the British merchant marine with the dwindling riches of the organizer Jean-Luc Auger...

What if the french were the ones to colonice the american south? Looking at otl french north america, I would assume that they could bring far less white colonist to the south than the brits, but looking at how Haiti was run, I could guess this would lead to a majority black south? Or maybe one...

With a POD after 1600, have Jamaica end up a French possession, and as francophone/creolophone by today as OTL Haiti, Martinique, or Guadalupe.

Is it possible for the french, with a PoD after 1848 and before 1900, to acquire the Sudan region, and possibly an outlet to the Red Sea? I'm under the impression that they were not able to colonise Egypt due to Britain's vested interest in controlling communications with India, but i still...

They discovered how big Africa was and just sent everyone there after losing Le Canada and defeated the Ottomans sooner like maybe 1740's. Thread just for fun