Triboulet
![A triboulet at the Monthey carnival](/Images/godic/202502/17/Carnaval_monthey_triboulet1929.jpg")
![The Triboulet of Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse (The Fool and Death by Sarah Bernhardt)](/Images/godic/202502/17/Sarah_Bernhardt-The_Fool_and_Death_mg_18071929.jpg")
![Portrait, c.1550](/Images/godic/202502/17/Triboulet_15501929.jpeg")
Triboulet (1479–1536) was a jester of kings Louis XII and Francis I of France.
He appears in Book 3 of François Rabelais' Pantagrueline chronicles. He appears in Victor Hugo's Le Roi s'amuse and its opera version, Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto, a blend of "Triboulet" and French rigoler (to laugh), intended to deflect the censorship that Hugo's work had received. A triboulet, a jester dressed entirely in red, is a character associated with the carnival of Monthey in Switzerland.