🗓 On September 24, 1896, the #French writer Elsa Triolet was born in #Moscow. Elsa Triolet was a French writer, the wife of the poet Louis Aragon and the younger sister of Vladimir Mayakovsky's muse Lily Brik. Her real name was Ella Yuryevna Kagan, and she was born in #Russia in the family of a famous lawyer on September 24, 1896 (the same day as Francis Scott Fitzgerald). The girl was named Ella in honor of the heroine of Goethe's poetry. She chose the name Elsa herself later.