and most of the words associated with betting and casinos come from the French language (e.g.: croupier, many forms of roulette bets).parimutuel betting (mutual betting), as the name suggests, also has French origins.the original version of baccarat, chemin de fer (means railroad) also originates from the country as well.the roulette wheel was invented by the French mathematician Blaise Pascal (roulette itself is a French word meaning ‘little wheel’).The Francophone gambling sector has contributed to the creation of several forms of games of chance, many of them have French names to this day, e.g.:
Most of the main forms of gambling are legal in France, and gambling has quite the history in the country.
