How could France have better developed its American colonies?

Everywhere from Acadia through to Louisiana what could have France done to better develop these lands and challenge if not overcome the British and their territories?
 
I think this objective is extremely ambitious, to say the least. (Allow me to repost this similar thread)

First, you'd have to deal with the lack of incitative regarding migration.

Without dense enough settlements and human presence, you're certain to have an issue about political permanence. But french peasant property was relatively more secure in France than it was in England, meaning economic incitative isn't that working well there.

Then the political monopoly on colonial transportation basically prevents any real autonomous colony to be set up, so no political incitative either.

The "hugenot" solution that I see proposed a lot is really a false good idea, being mainly a parallel to what happened with English settlements. French protestants were too few, too desorganized, heavily prevented to move in colonies by the royal power...

My advice is to not try making Canada bigger, it wasn't really attractive for a colonial power as France that favoured mercantile expansion, but to expand the Caribbean colonial model on Lousiana proper.

Devellopment of Louisiana, trough the infamous Compagnie du Mississipi, was seen as a great potential for production and trade, but it turned quickly into a speculation bubble.
Because the historical profit was meager doesn't mean this potential couldn't be realized, tough.

We're mainly talking about specialized production colonial model there there (sugar, mostly) focused on trade and involving mass slavery (including much more hostile relations with native and their enslavement in Louisiana) rather than european workforce.

With a right PoD, maybe you could turn southern Louisiana as part of the Carribean ensemble (meaning a hugely enslaved population, think Haiti ratio).
I wonder if an early french failure in India could mean a re-focus on this region?

You may end then with two important franco-american cultures : Canadien and Antillais, but I don't think that would be enough to efficiently challenge English/British settlement : Bourbon focus was always set on Europe, militarily or economically speaking, and first French colonial policy was set on a mercantile stance.
 
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