Louis-François Bertin
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Louis-François Bertin, also known as Bertin l'Aîné, was a French journalist. He had a younger brother, Louis-François Bertin de Vaux; two sons, Edouard François and Louis-Marie François; and a daughte
Louis-François Bertin (François-Xavier Fabre, 1803)
Portrait of Louis-François Bertin (Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, 1832)
Feuilleton
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A feuilleton 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
Louis-François Bertin
…Hoffmann, and Charles Nodier, the Journal soon became a major authority in French press and literature. Bertin is credited with the invention of the feuilleton, a supplement to a newspaper's political section, usually in smaller type, that carries gossip, fashion, criticism, epigrams and charades, and fosters…
July 1, 1984 edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. The second section is the feuilleton.
A page from the Finnish newspaper Helsingfors Dagblad (1889), showing a "ground floor" feuilleton