The Biggest France Lotto Jackpot
Any lotto player hopes of changing his whole life by winning the jackpot prize. Since 1976, when the French Lottery has launched or started, it has already made the dreams of about 7900 people come true by becoming multi millionaires in Francs, adding another 150 more when the Euro monetary system was introduced. Perhaps success stories of instant millionaires are so appealing that almost 15 million French plays the French Lotto makes it the most widely played games in French Lottery.
There is the story of a French man from Montpellier, South of France who has won the jackpot twice! The first was in 1996 and again recently August 2011, winning ?18.9 million and €3 million respectively. What a lucky chap! And he is still playing the French Lotto because he said he is not ruling out the possibility of winning a third time. Indeed, in French Lotto, the chance belongs to everyone, even if he has won twice. There was also the story about a generous French Lottery winner from Arles who shared his prize among his friends and with his wife. He shared his winning because the winning numbers were selected by him, his wife and his friend of 22 years. According to the article that featured the story of the French wine, the first time they played the numbers they were not so lucky. However, a week later, he decided to play the same numbers on his own and then he got lucky. Considering himself to be a man of principle, he divided and shared his winning of €10 million.
Another is an interestingly touching tale about a French Lotto jackpot winner from Northwestern France. The man was a lorry driver who worked for a company that is up for liquidation. He decided to buy the company and then hires his former employer. The most notably biggest winning of all was from an anonymous French winner holding a single ticket sweeping for him €162,256,622 or £141,872,754.94. If you win the French Lotto jackpot how would you spend it?
