Well, of course it doesn't give me the little symbol over the "a"...this is an English-language keyboard...
But yeah, I looked it up after I typed that. Thanks for the translation.
I think Piece de Resistance (pronounced in perfect French, of course) is the word I was looking for.
“…Judge not what a man has done, but judge what he could have done if he was a different bloke altogether. For art thou a leper? And a leper can changeth his spots…” --Rudy Wade, Misfits (Series 4, Episode 8)