Marotte
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A marotte is a prop stick or sceptre with a carved head on it. Jesters usually used a marotte. The word is borrowed from the French, where it signifies either a fool's (literal) "bauble" or a fad.
Typically carried by a jester or Arlecchino, the miniature head often reflects the costume of the jester who carries it. Modern marottes typically have music boxes or other machinery built into the head. Older marottes may utilize swivel heads with bells.
In popular culture[]
In the children's TV series Rentaghost, the stick was referred to as a "Tiny Timothy".
In Verdi's opera Rigoletto, the singer of the title role, a jester, carries a marotte, which often has on it the faces of comedy and tragedy.
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Niederwindemer Schindlejokel
Marotte of Deutsch
Before 1848
Welschkorngeister - Denzlingen
Hölle-Leue - Freiburg-Rieselfeld
Burgnarren - Freiburg-Zähringen
Musée du jouet de Moirans-en-Montagne
Rocca di Angera - Museo della Bambola
détail du dessin Le pas du Danube bleu. Caricature de Valio. Le Journal amusant 10 mars 1877
Grandville - A chaque fou plaît sa marotte
Émile Moreau-Roi et Paysan
Carlègle - Les Linottes
Triboulet en prière
Chambers 1908 Bauble
Playing Cards
VSAN TT 2014
VSAN Wgt 2015 568 Schalknarr
Fool's scepter, Germany or France, 1565-1600 in Germanisches National Museum - Nuremberg, Germany
Pirata marioneta lou
Kind mit Maske und Narrenzepter 19Jh
Three Fools of Carnival
Zwei Szepter - Johli und Feuerteufel
Seeräuber Titisee
Philippe Mercier Jeune garçon en costume de folie
Narrenzunft Nordrach - Zunftmeister
Renaissance fair
The Jester Statue on Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, England.
Jester's bauble
Frederick Locker (Waddy, 1872)
When Depew goes to the Senate by Homer Davenport (cropped)
Quentin Massys
Brooklyn Museum - For What Was I Created? - William Holbrook Beard - overall
Jan Pietersz. Saenredam - The Fool
A Court Fool of the 15th Century
Jacquemart de Hesdin
Hieronymus Bosch
Bajazz mit der Laterne von der Mainzer Künstlerin Inge Blum, eine Symbolfigur des Mainzer Karnevals - panoramio
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