Feuilleton (a diminutive of French feuillet, the leaf of a book) was originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers. Its inventor was Bertin the Elder, editor of the Journal des Débats. It was not usually printed on a separate sheet, but merely separated from the political part of the newspaper by a line, and printed in smaller type. In French newspapers it consisted chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle of the fashions, and epigrams, charades and other literary trifles. Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Politics Look up Politics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Politics (disambiguation) Democracy History of democracy List of democracy and elections-related topics List of years in politics List of politics by country articles Progressivism Progressive Logic Political corruption Political economy Political movement... Louis-François Bertin, also called Bertin lAiné, Bertin the Elder (born December 14, 1766 in Paris; died September 13, 1814) was a French journalist. ... Journal des Débats - Portrait of Monsieur Bertin, director, by Ingres The Journal des Débats is a French newspaper, published between 1789 and 1944 that changed title several times. ... ... Art criticism is the study and evaluation of art. ...

Besides France, Russia in particular cultivated the feuilleton in the 19th century. The feuilleton in its French sense was never adopted by English newspapers, though the sort of matter represented by it eventually came to be included. But the term itself entered English use to indicate the installment of a serial story printed in one part of a newspaper.

In the Nobel Prize winning novel The Glass Bead Game the current era is characterised and described as The age of Feuilleton. This article does not cite its references or sources. ... // Introduction The Glass Bead Game (German: Das Glasperlenspiel) is the last work of noted German author Hermann Hesse; he began it as his magnum opus in 1931, and it was published in 1943. ...

Bibliography

• Dianina, Katia. "The Feuilleton: An Everyday Guide to Public Culture in the Age of the Great Reforms,", The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Summer, 2003), pp. 187-210.

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