Montreal as a colony under The French Republic?

MrP

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I don't recall they changed anything with Saints name (might be wrong).
I'm not sure either whether towns named after Catholic saints were renamed during the revolution and then reverted back to their previous names, but one thing's for sure, there are plenty of them around to this day. If we use once again La Reunion as a template, it seems every third town name is Saint So-and-so.

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I don't recall they changed anything with Saints name (might be wrong). It wasn't the rule anyway. Otherwise they couldn't have doner any revolutioning, half the things in France are called St something :D

According to this Wikipedia page, many were in fact renamed. In the department of the Seine, Saint-Denis became "Franciade", Saint-Ouen became "Bain-sur-Seine", Saint-Maur-des-Fossés became "Vivant-sur-Marne" and Saint-Cloud became "La Montagne-Chérie".
 
If in this TL the revolution in France turns as radical as it did OTL, then this french Quebec or Canada (whatever its extension, be it only present Quebec or all the territories that were held/claimed by the french from Acadia to the gulf of Mexico and west of the Appalachians) would severe links with France the same way as the spanish colonies severed links with Spain when Napoleon invaded Spain and set-up a puppett regime.

Why would it do that?
 
According to this Wikipedia page, many were in fact renamed. In the department of the Seine, Saint-Denis became "Franciade", Saint-Ouen became "Bain-sur-Seine", Saint-Maur-des-Fossés became "Vivant-sur-Marne" and Saint-Cloud became "La Montagne-Chérie".
I shall stand corrected then. Truly, the French Revolution never fails to amaze.
 
Why would it do that?

Because there were not many people that like to be ruled by a minority of violent anti-religious radicals and because when you are separated from your metropolis by 6,000 kilometers of ocean it's quite easy to severe links with a radical tyranic regime.
 
Because there were not many people that like to be ruled by a minority of violent anti-religious radicals and because when you are separated from your metropolis by 6,000 kilometers of ocean it's quite easy to severe links with a radical tyranic regime.

Do we know that there would not have been support for at least some elements of the revolution?
 
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