Casanova's Lottery

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Introduction -- Casanova -- The Genoese lottery -- The establishement of the Loterie -- Problems and adjustments of the early drawings -- Antoine Blanquet and the great expansion of 1776 -- The introduction of bonus numbers : les primes gratuites -- The spread of the Loterie in Europe -- Data security : the design of the tickets -- The Loterie and the Revolution -- Was the Loterie fair? -- Dreams and astrology : the bettors and the Loterie -- The number 45 and the maturity of chances -- How much did they bet, and where? -- Muskets, fine-tuned risk, and Voltaire -- The Loterie in textbooks and manuals -- The suppression of the Loterie in 1836 -- Conclusion.