Triboulet (playwright)

For the jester of Francis I, see Triboulet.
1461 medal depicting Triboulet

Triboulet (fl. 1447–1479)[1] was a jester and comedy playwright for René of Anjou. There have been at least three Triboulets, as homonymy was widespread among French court jesters.[2] The Triboulet for René of Anjou was the first one. The name, equivalent to modern French phrase souffre-douleur ("punchbag"), comes from the archaic French verb tribouler.[3]

  1. ^ Roy, Bruno (January 1980). "Triboulet, Josseaume et Pathelin à la Cour de René d'Anjou". Le Moyen Français (in French). 7: 7–56. doi:10.1484/J.LMFR.3.71. ISSN 0226-0174.
  2. ^ Berthon, Guillaume (December 2012). "" Triboulet a frères et sœurs " – Fou de cour et littérature au tournant des XVe et XVIe siècles". Babel. Littératures Plurielles (in French) (25): 97–120. doi:10.4000/babel.2009. Retrieved September 18, 2019.
  3. ^ Lacroix, Paul (1838). Romans relatifs à l'histoire de France aux XVe et XVIe siècles (in French).