The library announced that it would remove the book, "Des Destinées de L'âme" ("Destinies of the Soul"), earlier this month. The book, published by Arsène Houssaye in 1879, was not originally ...

Harvard University announced it would remove a binding made of the skin of a deceased woman from the 19th-century book “Des Destinées de l’Ame,” which they house in their library.

The book, called Des destinées de l’âme, was published in the 1880s by French author Arsène Houssaye.Its name means "The destinies of the soul" in English. The university explained that the ...

A portrait of author Arsène Houssaye circa 1878. (Public domain) The French book, written by Arsène Houssaye and published in 1879, is a study on the soul and life after death, Harvard Library ...

The book, “Des Destinées de L’âme,” meaning “Destinies of the Soul,” was written by Arsène Houssaye, a French novelist and poet, in the early 1880s.