The art of blowing your interlocutor's nose in five scathing replies. Clemenceau, Churchill, Sarah Bernhardt...

Handling the word as others would a sword, they split with a few well-felt barbs. A look back at these good words passed down to posterity. Le Figaro invites you to rediscover them from two books: From the repartee to the reply (Le Figaro littéraire) and Anthologie de la repartees (Points)