On this day in ...... 1793 (215 years ago today), the government of the French Revolution opened the Louvre. The massive structure in the centre of Paris had been a home for the royal family, and its lavish art collection, for centuries. On this day the palace became a public art museum. Today le Musée du Louvre (left) is 1 of the world's best. And with its neoancient pyramid, its Egyptian ruins, and its classical treasures, its 1 of this IntLawGrrl's favorites.
... 1900, Margaret Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia, to parents of Scottish-Irish-French ancestry. "The family included many soldiers -- members of the family had fought in the American Revolution, Irish uprisings and rebellions and the Civil War."
In her early 20s Mitchell, "a headstrong flapper" (right), started working for $25 a week at an Atlanta newspaper. She quit working on account of injuries, and began working on the novel that would make her famous: Gone With the Wind, published in 1936, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1937, and source of the 1939 movie of the same name. (An IntLawGrrls post about 1 star of the film is here.) Mitchell died at age 49, having been struck by a car on Peachtree Street in the city of ther birth.
