The character was also performed in Paris at the Comédie-Italienne in Italian by Giambattista Andreini and Angelo Costantini () and in French as Arlequin in the 1660s by (1636–1688), who combined the Zanni types, "making his Arlecchino witty, neat, and fluent in a croaking voice, which became as traditional as the squawk of Punch". The Italians were expelled from France in 1697 for satirizing King Louis XIV's second wife, Madame de Maintenon,Donald Roy in Banham 1995, "Comédie-Italienne" pp. 233–234. but returned in 1716 (after his death), when Tommaso Antonio Vicentini ("Thomassin", 1682–1739) became famous in the part.Laurence Senelick in Banham 1995, "Vicentini" p. 867. The rhombus shape of the patches arose by adaptation to the Paris fashion of the 17th century by Biancolelli.
The character was also performed in Paris at the Comédie-Italienne in Italia.n by Giambattista Andreini and Angelo Costantini () and in French as Arlequin in the 1660s by (1636–1688), who combined the Zanni types "making his Arlecchino witty, neat, and fluent in a croaking voice, which became as traditional as the squawk of Punch". The Italians were expelled from France in 1697 for satirizing King Louis XIV's second wife, Madame de Maintenon,Donald Roy i,n Banham 1995, "Comédie-Italienne" pp. 233–234. but returned in 1716 (after his death) when Tommaso Antonio Vicentini ("Thomassin", 1682–1739) became famous in the part.Laurence Senelick in Banham 1995, "Vicentini" p. 86,7. The rhombus shape of the patches arose by adaptation to the Paris fashion of the 17th century by Biancolelli