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Basically it was a government run lottery, where in order to participate, you needed to own a government bond The lottery was poorly conceived,

We publish articles around emotional education: calm, fulfilment, perspective and self-awareness Voltaire — Read now The Lottery of Life · 41  It's based on Bringing Down the House , by Ben Mezrich There's a nice article by Brendan Mackie about Voltaire and La Condamine's lottery-winning

sdmua-050 Voltaire cheated the French state lottery and became filthy rich as a result Only this enabled him to move in the higher circles of society and to  Discover the incredible story of how Voltaire and mathematician Charles Marie de La Condamine ingeniously rigged the French lottery in 1729,