Richelieu's American dream succeeded?

According to a book I read recently, Cardinal Richelieu looked on French colonisation of North America favourably, but on certain conditions. He envisaged a Nouvelle-France sprinkled with provincial towns dominated by monasteries and nunneries, fed and fuelled by a peasant class. New France would become dominated by a French cleric class dominating a peasant class, with possibly a fluid class of trappers and Metis-type halfbloods sloshing around in between. What if Richelieu's dream for New France had succeeded, even if only partially?
 
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Vive le Canada!!!!!

My version of Canada is more of a Huguenot dominated Canada that secedes at the time of the US against British. Though if Canada did become more Catholic or Cleric dominated then it would revolt at the French Revolution either in a spur of Anti-Monarchial, Anti-Church peasent rebellion or a Conservative lead secession from the Republic of France.
 
The tricky part would have been getting the oppressed peasants of France to volunteer to become oppressed peasants in American.

Possibly if he allowed a class of traders and artisans to arise while keeping the monasteries as centers of education and government… that would have led to political conflicts later on, but it would have been a little more temporarily workable.
 
The tricky part would have been getting the oppressed peasants of France to volunteer to become oppressed peasants in American.

Possibly if he allowed a class of traders and artisans to arise while keeping the monasteries as centers of education and government… that would have led to political conflicts later on, but it would have been a little more temporarily workable.

The tricky part is keeping them peasants in America when they can up sticks and settle further West with their own land.
 
The quote says that the settlements were to be basically missionary outposts with enough peasants to feed the priests and nuns.

I t says nothing about oppression, but about that the peasants were only expected to grow food to feed the clerics.

If you take the short-lived Mississippi Company and use it to provide the French nobility with secondary estates overseas, they can use it to ship their troublesome peasants to their American estates, where they can hire Native American warriors(who the French got on with) to guard them and ensure they do their job.

New France could have been forced to submit to the system that already 'worked' in France.
 
The tricky part would have been getting the oppressed peasants of France to volunteer to become oppressed peasants in American.
Who says they get any say in the matter? Simply easier to herd them on to a ship without bothering with what they think about their little foreign excursion.
 
Who says they get any say in the matter? Simply easier to herd them on to a ship without bothering with what they think about their little foreign excursion.

Which means they set up their own settlements with about as much loyalty to the state as you'd expect, assuming that doesn't bog down for other reasons.
 
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