Huguenots in the New World

I need the members of the Reformed Church of France to be settled in mass in the New World with a POD of no earlier than 1675. Essentially, I need to know how I can get Louis XIV more interested in increased American settlement while simultaneously not having the desire to keep the colonies purely Catholic. Is it at all possible for him to want the Huguenots out of France, but used as a buffer against other Colonial powers?
 
As the descendant of Huguenots, I'd like to see this myself. There were a couple of failed attempts at making Huguenot colonies in OTL. I do wonder whether Coligny could have pursued the idea more vigorously and gotten a French equivalent of New England (by which I mean a haven for the religious minority) started somewhere.
 

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In My Cuban TL they're just starting to trickle in. Maybe a few will settle in the forthcoming "Maroon-Triangle" between Cuban Florida and British Carolina. The POD for the TL is back in the 1660's, but the big effects don't hit till the 1680's.
 
It can't work with your POD, I'm afraid. Louis XIV Protestant policy was, during the first half of his reign, the continuation of Richelieu's :tolerating the Reformed Church as long as it doesn't clash wth the King's policy. After that, obviously, he opted for the "catholic-statist" solution : conversion or exile. But, in both cases, France wouldn't have, in any case, encouraged a massive Protestant settlement in its American colonies. Strategically, the Huguenots would have been considered as potential allies for a British or Dutch raid on the colonies, would the relations between colonies and France proper. Politically, the colonies were (loosely) ruled as a part of France proper and the Huguenot problem would prevail, especially if the settlement zone is the Caribbean. Of course, an organized Hugenot colonisation would have been beneficial for the economic take-off of New France, but this matter was not prevalent in France's policy until the Regency.

The only solution, IMO, would be a private colonisation of some part of America by a French private company, owned by Hugenot entrepreneurs (probably from La Rochelle, the only major port with a sizeable Huguenot population), that would not, for any reason, be sized by the State. You could have some "Compagnie de la Religon pour les Indes Occidentales", settling in some part of the eastern American shore with some half-assed support of France, then gaining some autonomy is the last part of Louis's reign, after the French defeats of the 1695-1715 era.
 
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