FEUILLETON

(few-i-ton), that part of a French newspaper devoted to light literature or criticism, and generally marked off from the rest of the page by a line. The feuilleton very commonly contains a tale. The idea originated with the editor of the Journal des Débats early in the nineteenth century, and several novels of Dumas, Wugéne Sue, and others first appeared as feuilletons. The term is now applied loosely to the serial stories which appear in English newspapers, and which are not uncommonly sensational, often containing a strong love interest and including marque es and earms among their characters.