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While it's a trope and cliche every time boosting New France comes up that "hey maybe they'd settle Huguenots there" has anybody done an extrapolation of what the consequences would have been if the Huguenot led attempts of OTL created sustained colonies?

The notable attempts I can recall were in Port Royal, South Carolina, Jacksonville, Florida, and two different parts of Brazil.

They all failed, in the north America, with the help of the Spanish.

But what if they somehow survived and became sustained efforts? Either getting more support from France or some support from others unsympathetic to Spain, like the English?

Aside from this alternate New France having a majority or significant Protestant component, not the case with OTL's New France, what would the longer term consequences be of a French southeastern North America or French Brazil?

It's my understanding that these Huguenot effort were not entirely rogue, and that the settlers still regarded themselves as Frenchmen.

If they grow some useful cash crops, might metropolitan France find them useful and become increasingly committed to their protection? Especially during the years of the Edict of Nantes?

Could the potential importance of substantially Huguenot colonies to the French exchequer make ultimately revoking the Edict of Nantes an unaffordable decision?

I'm going to go fishing for about two weeks, and I look forward to hearing anything you may have thought of on this subject when I return.

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