Voltaire Rigs the Lottery | Odd Salon Scheme 2/7
Channel: Odd Salon
Date: 2019-08-25

A lottery swindle that changed everything: 1729, an ex-con named Voltaire teamed up with a nerdy mathematician. Together, they plotted to rig the lottery. Their scheming fueled the French Enlightenment.

Leonard Apeltsin ~ Voltaire Rigs the Lottery

Odd Salon SCHEME Six tales of cunning cons and devious dodges, impossible intrigues, contrived controversies, and serious skullduggery

Recorded live Tuesday, August 6th 2019 at Public Works, San Francisco, CA

Curated by Annetta Black

Edit, Camera, Post production: John Adams
Sound: Steen
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