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From March 28, 1887, after the Council of Ministers, it was announced that: “The various authorities are willing to accept the system of mutual paris operated by the companies themselves, each company will make the application; it will obtain approval by decree. “In fact, if the State accepts the role of” pimp “is under the guise of Charity who became the patron of PMU Paris. For, to calm the scruples of the moralist, in consideration of the authorization will be charged on paris 2% for charity, plus 3% to cover the operating costs of the racecourse, the Any balance that can be used in encouragement. But the City of Paris, you feel cheated by this agreement, made over his head without having been a contracting party.

If the public is slowly on the road racecourses, bookmakers have not disarmed. Forced to leave the race track where they are hunted, they turned Paris into a vast gambling den. For in its haste to solve the thorny problem in March 1887 of betting on race tracks, the government had not bothered to its corollary, the bet off the court races. The vacuum which nature abhors, dislodged the bookies quick to fill under the banner of “Commissioners of the Pari Mutuel.” Those who can not move or risk putting at least 5 F, they accept 50 or 25 cents, of course, they provide to go pay the Pari Mutuel officially opened on the racetrack. In spring 1890, the atmosphere surrounding the Pari Mutuel heavier. On 24 March, the Paris city council is looking at the issue of suppression agencies Pari Mutuel. In turn, the government moved, and June 2, the interior minister makes an order prohibiting “to participate in betting through agents through commissions provided outside the racetrack.” Among the recitals, “it is well known that the agencies acting on their own account, do not at the counters of the Pari Mutuel updates entrusted to them and thus frustrate the Public Assistance levy reserved for him. “Hunted, offenders are sentenced by the courts PMU , with the exception of certain grounds of the illegitimacy of the Pari Mutuel, which is merely a disguised lottery despite the levy on stakes for a charity. Sampling the award of which was claimed by the City of Paris (as owner of the racetrack) for Public Assistance of the Seine, and the interior minister trying to affect national charities, claiming that the races already procured a large benefit to trade in Paris. Pending a decision, payments, made on time by the racecourse in the Crédit Foncier de France responsible for the collection, had accumulated to form a real nest egg “that belongs to anyone and everyone competes” . When a bill regulating the use of these funds is discussed in parliament February 28, 1891, its purpose is diverted. The question becomes: who is for the game, which is against? Despite the warning of the Minister of the Interior, “If you do not want us to play: it will not play,” the deputies refused by 338 votes against 149 to move to the discussion of the articles of the bill. Promise Kept: 2 March, the Minister shall notify all companies that the authorization to operate the Pari Mutuel their racetrack ceases to be valid PMU from March 8.

This Sunday, March 8, races at Auteuil. The racecourse is under military occupation in the morning before the doors open by municipal guards on foot and on horseback. Deployment of forces useless, the public simply to demonstrate its abstention. Closing the Pari Mutuel and persistent rain is 6785 spectators to the pitch against 26,207 the previous year and a total revenue came into the 55% decrease. Thursday, March 12, the Society of Steeples sees the abyss: at Auteuil PMU, 2664 people in the lawn when they were 18 100 March 13, 1890. Almost exactly four years apart, the removal of paris has the same effect. The public sulking. The racecourse count their reserves and suspend grants to the province. Breeders rant. The municipal council of Paris protests and calls to the prefect the recovery of sums promised as part of its charities. The Parisian press criticism.