Answer:
The French interest in the New World centered on:
- Fur trade.
Explanation:
The real interest of the French in 1524 was searching a short route to "the East Indies", name given by Europe to current Asia, but this objective was just a mean, the end of this was can trade their furs with the people of that place with a low travel cost, all os this due to Asia was (and is currently) a big commercial place for all the nations or empires from that time.