FEUILLETON, originally a kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers. Its inventor was Ber tin the elder, editor of the Debats. It was usually separated from the political part of the newspaper by a line, and printed in smaller type. In French newspapers it consists chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle of fash ions, epigrams, charades, etc. The term has come into English use to indicate the instalment of a serial story printed in one part of a newspaper.