No Hundred Days and France keeps more colonies

[Ricardolindo]

Let's say the coalition keeps paying Napoleon and he doesn't flee Elba. This would have resulted in France keeping more colonies. Before the Hundred Days, the British were willing to return Saint Lucia, Tobago, Mauritius and Seychelles to France.
How would those colonies have developed?
Mauritius would probably have been less Indian and more Catholic and the Indians would have been more Tamils than North Indians, like in Reúnion.
All of those colonies would probably be French overseas departments in the present day, like Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reúnion and Mayotte.

 

[Ricardolindo]

Let's say the coalition keeps paying Napoleon and he doesn't flee Elba. This would have resulted in France keeping more colonies. Before the Hundred Days, the British were willing to return Saint Lucia, Tobago, Mauritius and Seychelles to France.
How would those colonies have developed?
Mauritius would probably have been less Indian and more Catholic and the Indians would have been more Tamils than North Indians, like in Reúnion.
All of those colonies would probably be French overseas departments in the present day, like Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reúnion and Mayotte.

So, does anyone else have any thoughts on this?
Maybe @LSCatilina?

 

[History Learner]

Let's say the coalition keeps paying Napoleon and he doesn't flee Elba. This would have resulted in France keeping more colonies. Before the Hundred Days, the British were willing to return Saint Lucia, Tobago, Mauritius and Seychelles to France.
How would those colonies have developed?
Mauritius would probably have been less Indian and more Catholic and the Indians would have been more Tamils than North Indians, like in Reúnion.
All of those colonies would probably be French overseas departments in the present day, like Guadeloupe, Martinique, Reúnion and Mayotte.

France retaining her land borders in Europe will be a major boon, given they contained a lot of Belgian coal. That might help catapult France further economically, and the lack of the Post-Napoleon reaction probably engenders greater political stability than we otherwise saw.

 

[Jackson Lennock]

France retaining her land borders in Europe will be a major boon, given they contained a lot of Belgian coal. That might help catapult France further economically, and the lack of the Post-Napoleon reaction probably engenders greater political stability than we otherwise saw.

Louis was trying to convince the other nations at the Congress to let him keep Furnes, Ypres, Menin, and Tournai too. Those lands plus other 1814 lands mean France has roughly 2 million more people.

If Napoleon remains on Elba, he probably exploits the iron mines. If he can't leave the island, I suspect he'd do a lot of writing and entertain a lot of guests, which make him a continuing sore for mainland Europe. Without the Hundred Days, Napoleon II isn't stripped of rights to inherit Parma either, IIRC. So the Bonapartes (or Bonaparte-Habsburgs) will have Elba and Parma.



France is marked in Brown.
Red are Elba and Parma.