La querelle du roman‐feuilleton: littérature, presse et politique: , un débat précurseur (1836‐1848)

The “roman‐feuilleton”, the practice of serialising novels in newspapers or reviews, developed under the July monarchy to become one of the most important literary forms in nineteenth century France. Early French authors to be published in a format which had already become popular in Britain included Dumas, Suë, Soulié, Féval and Balzac. Much of these authors’ output during the period appeared in the serialised form with perhaps the most famous examples being Dumas’s classics Les Trois Mousquetaires and Le Comte de Monte Cristo. The newspapers of the time, for example, Le Siècle and La Presse, played a major role...