Triboulet the Butt-Slapping Jester: Investigating a Historical Meme

Head to and use my code Kaz20 for $20 off orders over $100! If you’ve heard of Triboulet, it’s probably from the story where he slapped King Frances I on the butt and used his cleverness to get out of trouble. But there’s more to this story than meets the eye. Come learn with me on a journey where I suffer through the world of historical misinformation. Find me on Twitter: I’m on TikTok @ kazrowe Find me on IG: Buy my comics: Send me a ko-fi: Read my webcomic: Catch it on Tapas: Line Webtoons: Music from Epidemic Sound Captioning by Transcription, Ho! Captioning Services Filmed using: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema Camera 4k– Blackmagic Video Assist 5” HDR – Olympus M. Zuiko ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro– Samsung Portable SSD T5 - 2Tb– ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sources Les deux fous: histoire du temps de François 1er, 1524 by Paul Lacroix “Triboulet has brothers and sisters” – Court jester and literature at the turn of the 15th century e and XVI e centuries by Guillaume Berthon Le Magasin Pittoresque, 1871 Histoire de François Ier: roi de France By Gabriel-Henri Gaillard Jean Marot , Description du Voyage de Venise Œuvres françoises de Bonaventure Des Périers: Œuvres diverses By Bonaventure Des Périers Récréations historiques, critiques, morales et d’érudition. Tome 1 by Jean-François Dreux du Radier Prince of the Renaissance : the life of Francois I by Desmond Seward Francis I: The Maker of Modern France by Leonie Frieda Four Princes: Henry VIII, Frances I, Charles V, Suleiman the Magnificent and the Obsessions that Forged Modern Europe by John Julius Norwich The History of Court Fools by Dr. John Doran #FNanchor_B Mock Modernism: An Anthology of Parodies, Travesties, Frauds, 1910-1935 edited by Leonard Diepeveen Fools and idiots?: Intellectual disability in the Middle Ages by Irina Metzler Medieval Entertainers and the Memory of Ancient Theatre by Sandra Pietrini The Original: A New Miscellany of Humour, Literature, and the Fine Arts · Volume 1, 1832 Le Roi s’amuse! A tragedy in five acts By Victor Hugo Recueil de Poésies Françoises des XVe et XVIe Siècles, Morales, Facétieuses, Historiques réunies et annotées by Anatole de Montaiglon and James de Rothschild volume 13 La vraye histoire de Triboulet et autres poésies inédites récréatives, morales et historiques des 15. et 16. siècles recueillies et mises en ordre by Aristide Joly Music in the French Secular Theater, 1400-1550 by Howard Mayer Brown The American Monthly Magazine, Volume 3, 1837 Les lamentations et complainctes de Triboulet fol du roy quis faict contre la mort, 1550 Francis the First: An Historical Drama by Fanny Kemble The Works of Francis Rabelais, M.D. by François Rabelais Preuves de l’Histoire de Blois by Jean Bernier Les Hommes illustres de l’Orléanais : biographie générale des trois départements du Loiret, d’Eure-et-Loir et de Loir-et-Cher By Brainne, Charles, Debarbouiller, , Charles Ferdinand 1852