Feuilleton

Not to be confused with feuilletine, a crispy confection made from crêpes.

A feuilleton (French pronunciation: [fœjtɔ̃]; a diminutive of French: feuillet, the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle of the latest fashions, and epigrams, charades and other literary trifles.[1] The term feuilleton was invented by the editors of the French Journal des débats; Julien Louis Geoffroy and Bertin the Elder, in 1800. The feuilleton has been described as a "talk of the town",[2] and a contemporary English-language example of the form is the "Talk of the Town" section of The New Yorker.[3] In English newspapers, the term instead came to refer to an installment of a serial story printed in one part of a newspaper.[1]

  1. ^ a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Feuilleton". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 305.
  2. ^ Conway, Daniel W.; Gover, K. E. (2002). Søren Kierkegaard. p. 248. ISBN 9780415235907.
  3. ^ Buchan, James (8 March 2003). "Walter Benjamin meets Monsieur Hulot". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 February 2022.