New lottery planned for France

The French government’s minister for culture, Françoise Nyssen, has revealed that plans are in motion to launch a heritage lottery with the objective of helping finance historical preservation projects across the country.

Launching in September 2018, the Loto du Patrimone will be funded via a lottery draw and scratch card game, which is expected to generate up to Euro 20 million a year.

“We’ve been talking about the lottery for years so now we’re doing it,” said Nyssen as she unveiled the new strategy to maintain and restore more than 2,000 of France’s heritage sites considered ‘at risk’.

The announcement follows confirmation by French President Emmanuel Macron that public funding for French monuments will be increased by 5 percent, rising to Euro 326 million a year for the current government’s five-year term.

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