Alt Treaty of Paris: France keeps all sugar islands

Hello there,

I was checking some Caribean Islands and saw quite a few of them South of the Martinique were former French islands, abandonned by the Treaty of Paris to the British.

I wanted to know what would have happened if the French could have kept them? What would be the effect on French culture? That would turn the Southern Caribean into a fully French zone, with Guyana at the south. Could a stronger presence there help into making a Greater Guyana as well (with a different frontier at the Oyapoc with would double Guyana's size)

I think it could bring more caribean culture into Metropolitan France. It's already relatively present, especially in cooking

Any thoughts?
 
There would be little impact as these little islands (Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, etc) were not as well suited for cultivation of sugar as the "main" sugar islands in the Caribbean like St. Dominique/Dominican, Jamaica, Barbados, Guadaloupe, Martinigue and, later (due to poor Spanish management), Cuba.

Very few other islands in the Caribbean were ever good for much.

Keeping the big islands (martinique and Guadaloupe) was a major coup and the French didn't feel any real hurt by losing undeveloped lesser islands.
 
They're also not especially defensible, so the French would very likely lose them in the next major war they lost. Note that they actually got Tobago back after the American Revolution, only to lose it again in the Napoleonic Wars.
 
They're also not especially defensible, so the French would very likely lose them in the next major war they lost. Note that they actually got Tobago back after the American Revolution, only to lose it again in the Napoleonic Wars.

I think only St. Lucia was know for having a good military harbor. The rest were largely irrelovent from a colonial standpoint, having never provided a massive export crop (I think Grenada grew cloves for something).
 
Regarding the exports, I was reading (on wikipedia mind you) that the French started coffee crops in Lucia
 
They're also not especially defensible, so the French would very likely lose them in the next major war they lost. Note that they actually got Tobago back after the American Revolution, only to lose it again in the Napoleonic Wars.

And St. Lucia, too.
 
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