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South Bend News-Times, 13 December 1913

The bound essay on "The Bishop of D", written and published by Rabbi Cronbach, proceeds from the sale of which will go to the Orphans' home, have been placed on sale at Herr and Herr's book store, Freyermuth's art store, Ellsworth's dry goods store and Miller's book store. The books are attractively bound in cathedral blue cloth engraved with silver candlesticks. One thousand of them have been printed and will sell for 50 cents each. The proceeds will be Rabbi Cronbach's Christmas gift to the Orphans' home. The essay is one of the most popular which Mr. Cronbach has delivered in South Bend. Its subject is the famous "Bishop of D" of Victor Hugo's "Les Miserables".

About Abraham Cronbach: "If Cronbach had the power, he would destroy all jails and prisons, which he regards as instruments of societal vengeance which corrupt both the prisoners and society itself, and he would confine law-breakers to new institutions for psychological treatment and social retraining. [Source]

After reading this little newspaper article, did I travel to a different city in order to go to a library that holds one of these 1,000 copies? Yes I surely did and I thank whoever donated a copy of this book to the LA library, you are a hero.

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Life of a Les Mis fan in 1892:

Source: The Adelaide Observer

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So quite a bit of the promotional material of the 1935 film version of Les Miserables focused on its supposed educational value and a cute (?) example comes to us by way of a periodical called The Motion Picture and the Family, it's a bookmark that theater owners were meant to distribute at the local library:

#sorry the image quality is terrible #blame tumblr #les miserables #lm ephemera #lm 1935 #vintage advertisement

Les Misérables (1978) on VHS

#1978 fans is your collection even complete if you don't own it on VHS??#les miserables #lm 1978 #simply follow the link to purchase this from ebay #lm ephemera

Some Curious Relics of Victor Hugo

Apropos of Victor Hugo, there has been installed in the foyer of the Theatre des Nations, a curious collection of relics of the defunct poet, including not only the pen that he was accustomed to use, but also a tin lantern that he was wont to light his steps with at night during his sojourn to Guernsey. The great curiousity of the exhibition is a series of the poet's drawings. They are wild, fantastic, and original, full of imagination, and showing a sort of tempestuous ardor in the execution. Had not Victor Hugo been born a great writer he would have rivaled Gustave Dore on his own ground. But he was destined to write "Les Miserables," not to illustrate Dante. There are a number of portraits shown, representing the poet from his earliest days to the close of his career. They look for the most part strangely unfamiliar to those who have only known "the old man eloquent" in these latter years. The massive head, sublimely picturesque with its snowy framework of profuse locks and ample beard, is hardly to be recognized in the smooth-faced young man with the dome-like brow that wrote "Hernani" and "Marion Delorme." He did not let his beard grow until he was 65. The letters and autographs shown in glass cases are especially interesting. One of these is the dedication of "Les Miserables" to the child actress, little Daubray, who played Cosette in a dramatic version of the work.

Source: the Greencastle Times, 18 February 1886 The above image isn't from 1886 (obviously) but I thought it paired well with the story; you can read more about it here. The book is Les Enfants, with a dedication to Daubray, not Les Miserables. Anyways, just thought it was interesting and I love to find a mention of Cecile Daubray because I just think she was cool.

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