statesmen and soldiers who were their contemporaries. LOTS more to read : www.gutenberg.org/.../10940/10940-h/10940-h.htm Triboulet (1479 – 1536) was a microcephalic jester of kings Louis XII Francis I of France . He appears in Victor Hugo 's Le Roi s'amuse and its opera version, Giuseppe Verdi 's Rigoletto : "Rigoletto" was a blend