Eugène Ritt
Jean Eugène Ritt (23 March 1817 – 11 March 1898) was a French actor and theatre director. Life Ritt was born in Paris into the lower middle class, and raised in Strasbourg. Back in Paris, around 1834, he improvised himself an actor, organizing performances on suburban stages. In 1840, he performed at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique. ''Le Figaro'' indicated that, as an actor, he was "of modest art". Businessman, skillful and ingenious merchant, he sold mechanical leeches and meat, practiced open outcry at the Les Halles, carreau des halles, one of the organizers of this butchery system.. In 1856, he became an administrator, associated with Charles de Chilly, in the management, until 1862, of the Ambigu where were successively represented ''Les Fugitifs'', ''Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré'', ''Fanfan-la-Tulipe'', ''La Bouquetière des Innocents''. Still according to ''Le Figaro'', Chilly said, "This Ritt has two great qualities, he is thrifty and lucky!". From 1862 to 187 ...
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