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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 305 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FEUILLETON (a diminutive of the Fr. See also:feuillet, the See also:leaf of a See also:book)  , originally a See also:kind of supplement attached to the See also:political portion of See also:French See also:newspapers . Its inventor was See also:Bertin the See also:elder, editor of the Debuts . It was not usually printed on a See also:separate See also:sheet, but merely separated from the political See also:part of the newspaper by a See also:line, and printed in smaller type . In French newspapers it consists chiefly of non-political See also:news and See also:gossip, literature and See also:art See also:criticism, a See also:chronicle of the fashions, and epigrams, charades and other See also:literary trifles; and its See also:general characteristics are lightness, See also:grace and sparkle . The See also:feuilleton in its French sense has never been adopted by See also:English newspapers, though in various See also:modern See also:journals (in the See also:United States especially) the sort of See also:matter represented by it is now included . But the See also:term itself has come into English use to indicate the See also:instalment of a serial See also:story printed in one part of a newspaper .

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