Spain founded colonies in Florida, the Caribbean, and South America in search of resources.France established colonies in North America as a way to aid their trading with the Native Americans. French trading outposts had already been established in North America as a way to obtain furs and other resources for export.
Spain and France established colonies in America for the same reasons that England did (mostly for wealth and prestige). France and Spain established their colonies before England as well. France established colonies in North America as a way to support their trading with the Native Americans.
The correct answer is salutary neglect. The name of the policy came from a speech that the philosopher Edmund Burke gave to Parliament in the 1700s. A policy then emerged wherein the colonies were, more or less, left alone. Certainly more than they would have been as a subservient colony to the Crown.
