One of the many issues that France had in the XVIII was that the country was not well equiped to deal with food shortages and famines. In a way for its economic structure France was an overpopulated country in which a big part of its population got impobrished by the costant increase in agricultural products specially wheat.
One of the many reasons Spain and Britain never had a massive popular revolt while their population was quickly increasing was that their excess population could be moved elsewhere into their colonial empire, a policy that France didn't fully pursue.
Could an stable French colony in North America and a state policy that facilitated farmers to settle it have avoided a massive popular revolt in the late XVIII?
One of the many reasons Spain and Britain never had a massive popular revolt while their population was quickly increasing was that their excess population could be moved elsewhere into their colonial empire, a policy that France didn't fully pursue.
Could an stable French colony in North America and a state policy that facilitated farmers to settle it have avoided a massive popular revolt in the late XVIII?