A Restored New France

At any point in time before the 1900s could at least the area around Québec be returned to France? Would France even want any of it back?
 
No and no, honestly. France considered it unimportant to their future giving it up come 1763 and the Canadians felt betrayed ever since, it took a couple centuries with Vive Le Quebec Libre for some kindship in a national sense to come back.

The best bet is to KEEP Canada French when the Treaty of Paris rolls around.
 
At any point in time before the 1900s could at least the area around Québec be returned to France? Would France even want any of it back?

Well, if you have French marines sitting on Quebec City and Montreal following a sufficient enough drumming of Great Britain during The American Revolution (Which, considering she's being dog-piled by the Dutch and Spainards at the time and her grip on the colonies is the loosest its going to be for awhile is probably their best chance), they might be able to pull it off. However, it'd take ALOT of work and wrangling with the Americans to get them to back the movement, and a general scuttling of British naval power to the point that their colonial Empire is untenable.

Then, of course, they won't hold it very long because French Revolution.
 
No and no, honestly. France considered it unimportant to their future giving it up come 1763 and the Canadians felt betrayed ever since, it took a couple centuries with Vive Le Quebec Libre for some kindship in a national sense to come back.

The best bet is to KEEP Canada French when the Treaty of Paris rolls around.
And they probably rules out any Quebec based reunification movements too doesn't it.
 
Well, if you have French marines sitting on Quebec City and Montreal following a sufficient enough drumming of Great Britain during The American Revolution (Which, considering she's being dog-piled by the Dutch and Spainards at the time and her grip on the colonies is the loosest its going to be for awhile is probably their best chance), they might be able to pull it off. However, it'd take ALOT of work and wrangling with the Americans to get them to back the movement, and a general scuttling of British naval power to the point that their colonial Empire is untenable.

Then, of course, they won't hold it very long because French Revolution.
I was under the impression that the Americans thought they were duty bound to help France get New France.
 
No and no, honestly. France considered it unimportant to their future giving it up come 1763 and the Canadians felt betrayed ever since, it took a couple centuries with Vive Le Quebec Libre for some kindship in a national sense to come back.

The best bet is to KEEP Canada French when the Treaty of Paris rolls around.
What if France lost it in 1763 but got it back in 1783?
 
I was under the impression that the Americans thought they were duty bound to help France get New France.
I'm under the impression that the patriots only cared about accepting French assistance, and had no interest in helping France do anything but free the colonies. They might have accepted a New France to the north, if NF didn't encroach on what the colonists viewed as theirs, but they weren't going to help France regain it. As in OTL, they'll ditch France as soon as independence is in sight.
 
Assuming it's not butterflied away.

France's fundamental tax-expenditure structure, mounted war debts, the Versailles system and the popular enmity it caused, etc. are already firmly established things by a late American Revolution POD, and I highly doubt the butterflies are going to be flapping their wings hard enough to blow the hailstorms and bad weather in general away from the countryside quite yet. France needs a way to control the price of bread to prevent the Revolution and dosen't have the cash to pull it off... and now needs to pay the cost of re-establishing effective control over her new colonies, which if anything is going to cost MORE money since New France isen't exactly an immediate fountain of wealth.
 
Well, if you have French marines sitting on Quebec City and Montreal following a sufficient enough drumming of Great Britain during The American Revolution (Which, considering she's being dog-piled by the Dutch and Spainards at the time and her grip on the colonies is the loosest its going to be for awhile is probably their best chance), they might be able to pull it off. However, it'd take ALOT of work and wrangling with the Americans to get them to back the movement, and a general scuttling of British naval power to the point that their colonial Empire is untenable.

Then, of course, they won't hold it very long because French Revolution.

They probably get it back in 1814 though.

I was under the impression that the Americans thought they were duty bound to help France get New France.

Louis XVI's government made clear that it had no designs on North American territory.
 
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