Immediately, thanks to the coming of Brazil wood into France proper, Henry ordered for enlargement of the fleet arguing it was necessary to defend their new colonial possessions as well as the transporting of it’s goods, not to mention the fact the navy played a pretty key role in securing it in the first place
France rule the waves?
In a nutshell, it demonstrated that while the French were happy to have their 3 main allies around,
Basically we have a specific rule for these three groups that will be treated well and the rest is the rest
Meanwhile the Code des Noires made it law that:
All things considered, it is a relatively liberal document. Probably generating a large number of middle-class mulattos in addition to a group of free blacks. But this probably makes the demand for slaves greater. In addition to causing a separation between black Brazilians and Africans
A painting of a mulatto soldier from the Northeast region, the French hoped that these mixed race people(alongside the caboclos and cafusos) would serve as a loyal caste who would be loyal to the state apparatus above all and be used as an "ideal repressor" who would have no problem brutalizing other groups as long as their own rights were not revoked. During the colonial times, the army was seen as the best institution for advancement both social and economical as well as developing local talent that meant France didn't have to send it's own.
Okay, it looks like the colony is going to have a relatively large army. This I did not expect.
Dieppe Tax: a set of 20% of all the income of the non believer,
well, it seems that the french are imitating the way of extorting minorities
exception of the colony of Brazil and those in Africa of São Tome, Principe and Cape Verde where the non believers are allowed to practice their faith in the open. they are allowed to take their wealth with them and no longer have to pay the tax however their land and property left in France will become possession of the crown since they will no longer be inhabiting it.”
Of course, I thought that the colony was going to have some religious diversity, but the colony seems to be really quite different in terms of religion. It was an idea held by the king, basically making the best option for these groups to be the colonies. Thus achieving more power in France, probably with the country centralizing faster than OTL. Probably middle and lower class people who will immigrate the most (besides some upper class) considering they have little land.
After all if the King could impose something like this without question it could set up a precedent of the king making justifications to arrest anyone inside the realm who could be accused in the vague wording of “destabilizing the realm”
I think that was the king's idea. Have a way to kick out whoever he doesn't want to the colony when he needs to
For now, they would play Henry’s game, either leaving for Brazil and Africa[8] or in the cases of most Huguenots nobles and rich merchants, staying in and paying the tax and watching the noose around their neck forming.
long term even nobles and merchants are likely to go to the colony
to live in France or more commonly left for Brazil to help there and be able to practice their faith in freedom, this would have the important aspect that since many of them were involved in usury they would help start many French banks in cities like La Rochelle, Dieppe, Rouen, Calais, Paris, Nantes
Well, France will have an economic system much more developed than in OTL, perhaps the most developed in Europe
many nobles who started sending their own colonists in the hopes of "stemming the Protestant tide", thus giving quite a nice boom of catholic Frenchman to the colony, mostly males who were the second sons of farmers and craftsmen who didn't inherit but still had the skills taught by their parents, most of them went into the northeast
The colony will be very different from other colonies in the Americas. Having a set of classes since its inception, with members (or rather secondary children) of the nobility (and other groups) going to the colony.
the Scots who had their queen live in France wondered if something similar could not be made for their own realm, especially since now she was pregnant with the sons[11] of Dauphin Francis II who could take the realm and start a Valois Dynasty on the realm
Well Valois in Scotland prevents simple wars between England and Scotland. (Maybe Great Britain won't unify?)
The crates of sugar were arriving in France and refineries of private origin started going online, being the sole distributors of sugar to Europe from Iberia to the Baltics was a major cause of profit from France that soon began paying off it’s massive debt it had accumulated from the last war
Very likely countries like England (and others) will try to produce this in the Caribbean. The lack of France in the region will open space for other powers (perhaps one of the Scandinavian powers or a German company)
That alongside the new tobacco plantations. strange black beans
The colony will not have a simple economy it seems. Unlike the Portuguese who only planted sugar. France looks like it will have a wide variety of plantations in the colony (so coffee, sugar, tobacco in addition to productions like precious minerals, cattle among other things. Maybe cotton in the future). The colony will truly be the jewel in the French crown in America. In addition to quebec can occur for the production of fur .Not only that, but the greater economic diversity of the colony allowed, in the long run, greater control of the Altantic by France (and its resources such as whales, fish, crustaceans, etc.)
Finally, Henry II started an important ministry, the Ministére de l'administration coloniale, which would be responsible for overseeing the colonies, how much money was being poured into them, what was coming out and what was going, reports from the governors and general governor, census, etc. The ministry would serve its purpose in integrating and working with the government to ensure it would work and give profit to France.
Basically the french version of the india company? Organizing the empire?
