Harvard’s Houghton Library made news when the library announced that it possessed Arsene Houssaye’s Destinies of the Soul bound in human skin.The French novelist, who was grieving his wife’s ...
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A Book Bound With Human Skin Spent 90 Years in Harvard's Library. Now, the Binding Has Been RemovedThe book in question is Des Destinées de L’âme, or Destinies of the Soul, which was written by French author Arsène Houssaye in 1879. Philanthropist and businessman John B. Stetson ...
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Harvard library removes human skin from book bindingA copy of the 19th-century book "Des Destinées de l'Ame" -- or Destinies of the Soul, a meditation on life after death -- was found in 2014 to be bound in the skin of a deceased woman.
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