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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Josep Oller<br />
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| birth_name = Josep Oller<br />
| birth_date = 10 February 1839<br />
| birth_place = [[Terrassa|Terrassa, Catalonia, Spain]]<br />
|death_date = 19 April 1922 (aged 83)<br />
| death_place = [[Paris, France]]<br />
| signature = Signatura de Josep Oller i Roca.png}}<br />
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'''Josep Oller i Roca''' (1839–1922) was a [[Catalans|Catalan]] entrepreneur who lived in Paris for most of his life. He co-founded the famous cabaret [[Moulin Rouge]]<ref name="Joseph Oller, the founder">{{cite web | title=Joseph Oller, the founder | url=http://www.moulinrouge.fr/vedette/joseph-oller?lang=en}}</ref> with [[Charles Zidler]] and was the inventor of [[parimutuel betting]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Inventor of the "Pari Mutuel" System Of Wagering | url=https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/historydisplays/SecondFloor/Totalisators/ToteHistory/BookSummary.pdf}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Born in Catalonia in the city of [[Terrassa]], Josep Oller emigrated to [[France]] with his family as a child. Later, he relocated back to [[Spain]] to study at the university in [[Bilbao]]. There, he became fond of [[cockfighting]] and started his career as a [[bookmaker]].<br />
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Once in Paris, in 1867, Josep Oller invented a new method of wagering, which he named Pari Mutuel ([[French language|French]] for Parimutuel betting). He successfully introduced his pool method system at French race tracks. Nonetheless, in 1874, Josep Oller was sentenced to fifteen days in prison and fined for operating illegal gambling. Later, in 1891, the French authorities legalised his system and banned [[fixed-odds betting]]. Quickly, Oller's Pari Mutuel spread across most [[race tracks]] around the world, but the method was operationalised in engineered systems like that of the [[automatic totalisator]], invented by [[George Alfred Julius]].<br />
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In 1870, he relocated to London for a while to avoid the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. There he became acquainted with the business of drama.<br />
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From 1876, Joseph Oller involved himself with the [[entertainment industry]]. <br />
First he opened various auditoriums and venues: Fantaisies Oller, La Bombonnière, Théâtre des Nouveautés, Nouveau Cirque and the Montagnes Russes. <br />
During 1889 he co-inaugurated the famous [[Moulin Rouge]], together with [[Charles Zidler]].<ref name="Joseph Oller, the founder"/> In 1892, he opened the first Parisian [[music-hall]]: [[Paris Olympia]], offering new forms of entertainment.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zv2TvqhPhmMC&q=joseph+oller+opened+paris+olympia&pg=PA59|title=Chanteuse in the City: The Realist Singer in French Film|last=Conway|first=Kelley|date=2004|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=9780520938571|language=en}}</ref><br />
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He was buried in Paris in the [[Père Lachaise Cemetery|Cemetery of Père Lachaise]].<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
* {{cite book |last1=Pessis |first1=jacques |last2=Crépineau |first2=Jacques |title=Le Moulin Rouge |year=2003 |url=https://excerpts.numilog.com/books/9791036906886.pdf |language=fr |location=Paris |publisher=[[La Martinière Groupe]] |isbn=978-2-7324-2913-7 |access-date=2021-05-24 |archive-date=2022-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221205090420/https://excerpts.numilog.com/books/9791036906886.pdf |url-status=dead }}<br />
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