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Feuilleton

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]

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

Reference in Hesse novel[edit]

In the novel The Glass Bead Game (1943) by Nobel Prize-winning novelist Hermann Hesse, the current era is characterised and described as "The Age of the Feuilleton".[11]

Causerie

Op-ed

Column (newspaper)

Serial novel

Sunday Supplement

(1995), book that inspired several German newspapers to integrate scientific reports into their feuilleton sections

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