French New York

The French get the Dutch Colony of New Amsterdam instead of the British. It's Renamed New (insert place in France here). How does this effect the course of colonial history?
 
Veranazzo (sic) sailed into the harbor and called it New Angeloume (again, sic). That'd be a possible name, for starters. :)

But whatever else, French America got a huge boost. Now if it's its own colony, part of Acadia, or part of Louisiana that makes me wonder...
 
They'd need settlement on a large scale or else the Brits would slowly overrun and absorb it. French North America policy rarely went beyond fur traders and missionaries with few settling down for the long run. Even Louisiana was little more than NO as a trade port and the delta as a "food production site" to support the truly profitable Saint Domingue (Haiti) colony, and once Haiti was lost Nappy was more than happy to sell it for cash.

Perhaps if *New York City becomes an important stop on the fur trade down the Hudson/Champlain corridor from the Great Lakes (assuming the "Iriquois problem" is dealt with) it could become a New Orleans analog.

Still, holding it is difficult unless there's a serious change in French NA policy.
 
Veranazzo (sic) sailed into the harbor and called it New Angeloume (again, sic). That'd be a possible name, for starters. :)

But whatever else, French America got a huge boost. Now if it's its own colony, part of Acadia, or part of Louisiana that makes me wonder...
It would be called Nouvelle-Angoulême, you are correct. But like New York, it would be named after a person (in this case Francis I of France, Count of Angoulêm, and not the city of Angoulême.
 
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