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Now, I do not work on the "Loterie Algérienne" - or the French "Loterie Nationale"! - but some of their #ColonialAdverts (from the late 1930s/early 1940s) are amazing. All of these were published in Francophone newspapers in Algeria between 1939 and 1941!
As always, I am not sure if these strongly Orientalised images were meant to appeal to North Africans or to Europeans.
![This is a drawn image, in black on yellowish newspaper paper. It shows an older North African man with a white beard and in traditional clothes and a turban, smiling towards the reader. He holds up, in his right hand, a bag filled with money, some some banknotes sticking out. Above him, it says, in French: "Algerian lottery" and, in Arabic, "Algerian papers of fun" [???] - maybe I am reading it wrong. Next to him, it says, in French: "A ticket can sweeten your future!!"
This image can be found in "L'Écho syndical du personnel de la Banque de l'Algérie", published on the 01.07.1939, p. 2.](https://media.historians.social/media_attachments/files/113/860/013/833/439/547/original/4f347157aaf2a1ec.png "This is a drawn image, in black on yellowish newspaper paper. It shows an older North African man with a white beard and in traditional clothes and a turban, smiling towards the reader. He holds up, in his right hand, a bag filled with money, some some banknotes sticking out. Above him, it says, in French: \"Algerian lottery\" and, in Arabic, \"Algerian papers of fun\" [???] - maybe I am reading it wrong. Next to him, it says, in French: \"A ticket can sweeten your future!!\"
This image can be found in \"L'Écho syndical du personnel de la Banque de l'Algérie\", published on the 01.07.1939, p. 2.")
The third #ColonialAdvert claims - in French, published in 1941 - that, "by purchasing Algerian Lottery tickets, you are contributing to the recovery of Algeria".