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La Française des Jeux (FDJ, French pronunciation: [la fʁɑ̃sɛz de ʒø]) is the operator of France's and the Republic of Ireland's [1] national lottery games, and the title sponsor of the FDJ cycling team. The name of the company loosely translates as The French Company of Games. The company was previously owned and operated by the French ...
A quarter of a billion tickets were sold over that period through lottery offices all over France, thanks to which the state budget received "millions of livres (and then francs)". [1] The Loterie was unique because, unlike a raffle, the maximum possible winning to be disbursed by the state to the winners was not known in advance. Thus, it was ...
The first French lottery was created by King Francis I in or around 1505. After that first attempt, lotteries were forbidden for two centuries. They reappeared at the end of the 17th century, as a "public lottery" for the Paris municipality (called Loterie de L'Hotel de Ville) and as "private" ones for religious orders, mostly for nuns in convents.
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The ANJ ("National Authority for games") is responsible for the regulation of the gambling industry in France. [2] [3] There are two historical operators, currently known as they operate in monopoly. FDJ (Française des Jeux (lottery)) benefits from a State monopoly until 2044 for lottery games (both online and offline) and offline sports betting.