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Does Louisiana attract significant numbers of Canadien settlers between 1763 and 1783?

-ie, some thousands of French speakers from the St. Lawrence valley, who would rather move than stomach living under British rule.​

Does France successfully promote settlement from the metropole between 1763 and 1783?

-France seems to have promoted colonial settlement more aggressively *after* the losses of 1763 than before. Problem was, they funneled alot of people to French Guiana to die. If Louisiana is available, colonist mortality should be less, especially for those up country in places like St. Louis.​

Does France advance claims east of the Mississippi at the end of winning the ARW, if the American rebellion still happens despite changes?

Does French Louisiana stay loyal to revolutionary regimes in Paris, or not?

How does Lower Louisiana respond to potential anti-slavery directives from Paris or initiated by Jacobin governors?


On initial plausibility, it should not be a problem, and no need to assume the territory could only have become Spanish or British as of 1763:

The French handover of Louisiana (New Orleans and the west of the Mississippi) to Spain in 1763 is widely assumed to be part of the settlement of the Seven Years War, part of a process of yielding North America to Britain and compensating Spain for the loss of Florida.
But on closer inspection it appears that the transfer of Louisiana to Spain was a separate, bilateral transaction between France and Spain. In fact it was kept secret from the British at the time it made peace with France and determine what territories France would cede and which they would recover from Britain.

So it appears that the Bute Ministry and George III in 1763 were prepared to tolerate the continuation of French rule in at least the relatively distant parts of North America west of the Mississippi and at New Orleans.
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