Thibaudborny t1_j9yo6jt wrote on February 25, 2023 at 3:17 PM

Reply to comment by Forsaken_Champion722 in Weekly History Questions Thread. by AutoModerator

What if's are overall quite pointless, but consider how in very few cases emigration truly solved everything. Ireland was never pacified, the emigration of puritans did not stop them from being pivotal in the English Civil War, etc. So, most probably, it would have mattered little. Remember that the Huguenots in France were also often well-off groups with vested interests and not necessarily with much incentives to abandon all that.

BoringView t1_j9yyddk wrote on February 25, 2023 at 4:28 PM

French colonial policy wasn't as well planned as other states. One such policy was to deport prostitutes and criminals to a colony, and it didn't work.

Deporting the French protestants would probably either be a failure or if successful, have a potentially disloyal colony.

Thibaudborny t1_j9yzcn1 wrote on February 25, 2023 at 4:34 PM

But considering the social position of the French protestants and then consider the implications of forced deportation, that would definitely be the Religious and Civil Wars cranked up to the max.