Because of the change of the French currency value over the years, it was renamed multiple times before taking its present name.

It has been hosted respectively by Henri Kubnick, Albert Raisner, Maurice Gardett, Roger Lanzac, Pierre Le Rouzic, Lucien Jeunesse for 30 years from 1965 to 1995, Louis Bozon from September 1995 to June 2008, and is currently being hosted by Nicolas Stoufflet.

The show has also travelled to the United States, Portugal, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Réunion, the Clemenceau Airport, on the ocean liner Massalia, and in a submarine.

At this stage, there are three possibilities: For each question, response time is sounded by an assistant playing a glockenspiel,[2] a small metallophone, with four hammers.

[3] The first show was recorded on April 19, 1958, in a drawn marquee in the marketplace of Blanc[2] and was broadcast two days later on France Inter.

Installed each day in a different town under the Pinder circus tent, the game consisted of, from its start, a series of cultural questions posed to a team of two contestants, who could win a final prize of 100,000 francs.

After Henri Kubnick, the show went through a series of moderators: Maurice Gardett, Albert Raisner, Roger Lanzac, Pierre Le Rouzic (1965), and Lucien Jeunesse (1965 - 1995), who retired with the longest run as moderator of the show.

Moderators would always leave the show with the following saying: "À demain, si vous le voulez bien!"

"[5] In June 1995, after spending 30 years traveling the roads, Lucien Jeunesse, at the age of 77, decided to retire.

In an interview on the last day with France 2, the moderator recalled spending time in 10,000 hotel rooms, eating 20,000 restaurant meals, and making 40,000 phone calls to his wife.

[8] At the time of the replacement of the franc with the euro on January 1, 2002, the show was renamed Le Jeu des mille euros, the purpose of which was to keep the same operation and principles for the identity of the game, with a little planning related to the conversion.

In April 2008, the show celebrated its 50th anniversary, and still remained the most popular French radio program at 12:45 PM UCT+1: 1.395 million listeners and 15.6% of the market share.

[14] Another show in the set of these programs was recorded in June 2018 with moderators from France Inter, including Charline Vanhoenecker and Léa Salamé, who formed duos with other contestants, and with an exceptional winnings potential (for a superbanco) of 2,000 euro.