Could a larger colonization of Louisiana and Quebec prevent the French revolution?

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?
 
France will still be broke, as this does nothing to stop the fire-sale of tax-exempt titles, the broken legal-commercial system in France and the sudden price shocks created by the attempts to impliment Free Market reforms and bad harvests. So you still have a bunch of urban poor who are having to chose between bread and rent and a clergy and nobility seeking to hold onto their inheirted orbought privlages (in the case of an increasing number of the Merchant class) which would gum up any meaningful reform possabilities and no more international credit to buy breathing space.

Louis XIV really baked in the groundwork for unrest by over leveraging France for immediate gain. When the bills came due, there was nothing left to pay it was
 
France will still be broke, as this does nothing to stop the fire-sale of tax-exempt titles, the broken legal-commercial system in France and the sudden price shocks created by the attempts to impliment Free Market reforms and bad harvests. So you still have a bunch of urban poor who are having to chose between bread and rent and a clergy and nobility seeking to hold onto their inheirted orbought privlages (in the case of an increasing number of the Merchant class) which would gum up any meaningful reform possabilities and no more international credit to buy breathing space.

Louis XIV really baked in the groundwork for unrest by over leveraging France for immediate gain. When the bills came due, there was nothing left to pay it was
Precissely. What if those urban poor had the choice to start a new life in a prosperous New France? Spain sent a lot of its beggars and homeless people to America were they could be used to work on mines or in developing the agriculture of Chile or Argentina to feed Peru. What if France did the same with its urban poor? Wouldn't this take away part of the demographic engine of the revolution even if French finances are screwed as Spain's were in the second half of the XVII century?
 
Having a colonial safety-valve would certainly decrease the impact of bad harvests, which was one of the triggering factors for the French Revolution. France would still have plenty of structural weaknesses, of course, but removing one of them couldn't hurt, and would potentially give them more breathing space to tackle the others.
 
Precissely. What if those urban poor had the choice to start a new life in a prosperous New France? Spain sent a lot of its beggars and homeless people to America were they could be used to work on mines or in developing the agriculture of Chile or Argentina to feed Peru. What if France did the same with its urban poor? Wouldn't this take away part of the demographic engine of the revolution even if French finances are screwed as Spain's were in the second half of the XVII century?

So... hollow out France's tax base even further and introduce a major new expense in the colonial office. This is supposed to help the French budget how exactly?
 
So... hollow out France's tax base even further and introduce a major new expense in the colonial office. This is supposed to help the French budget how exactly?
If the urban population is empobrishing and starving what they can contribute to taxes cannot be too high. A settler colony is an entire new market for French manufacturing as the empobrished urban population in America could be productive in forms of leatherwork,woodwork or producing grain that could be exported to the Antiles to support a bigger population in the French plantations or Spanish America in exchange of bullion.
For tax collection is more important to boost productivity than population as most taxes are payed by very productive individuals, rather than a large mass of empobrished people. The British treasury didn't decrease its income due immigration to the Americas, in fact it increased as British industries started to make larger profits for the increase in their consumer base abroad.
 
If the urban population is empobrishing and starving what they can contribute to taxes cannot be too high. A settler colony is an entire new market for French manufacturing as the empobrished urban population in America could be productive in forms of leatherwork,woodwork or producing grain that could be exported to the Antiles to support a bigger population in the French plantations or Spanish America in exchange of bullion.
For tax collection is more important to boost productivity than population as most taxes are payed by very productive individuals, rather than a large mass of empobrished people. The British treasury didn't decrease its income due immigration to the Americas, in fact it increased as British industries started to make larger profits for the increase in their consumer base abroad.

The impovrishment didn't come in drips and dribbles over an extended period of time, at least no more than in other parts of Europe. The prices spiked over the span of a few years as a result of bad harvests hitting at the same time as the removal of price controls on bread (due to the sudden revealing of the financial funny business that's bethat's been going on to hide how deep in the red France actually was) and the lowering of internal barriers of trade and opening up of commerce will England that lead to a flow of grain out of the areas that had traditionally benefited from cheap grain due to landowners moving their product to take advantage of high prices elsewhere unless the locals matched the prices. Not even accounting the political problems of encouraging the areas with actual overpopulation to transfer population to the New World (Your Ancien Regeime nobles depend on those dues and are going to fight you every step of the way, and they got that power fare and square and you depend on them to make the country run), there's no draw or solid instiutions to get the settler to relocate. Remember the English mainly had private instiutions handling that, which France is much less well setup to do, especially since you don't have as mass Enclosure booting out the peasentry in France and leaving them footlose. Even if they want to leave once the crisis hits,how are they going to pay for the passage and resettlement when they can't afford to eat three meals a day?
 
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