The 19th Century
The nineteenth century saw the blossom of the literature in most of European states. We may view the development of the European wit as exemplified by Maurice Joly's 1864 pamphlet named "The Dialogue in Hell Between Machiavelli and Montesquieu". It was the brightest and the most aggressive attack on the political ambitions of Napoleon III. Firstly, it was released in Brussels in 1864. In fact, Joly applied a dialogue as a literary device between two plotters in the Pandemonium aimed at revealing all the illegal and anti-human politics of Napoleon III. Baron Montesquieu presented all the liberalistic positions of his politics while Machiavelli manifested the case for cynical despotism.
We might ask ourselves why we provided an example by Maurice Joly exactly while there exist hundreds of others. Among them are Saltykov-Schedrin, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain and what have you. The things is, the regime of Napoleon III was one of the hardest regimes Europe survived in the course of the 19th century. It was accompanied by a lot of cultural protests within 6-7 years that did their bit in the general task of overthrowing that regime. For France, it was the time of crucial social, political and economic changes that had no less considerable aftermaths then.
As it was already said, we may find similar literary examples in lots of other countries, but this distinguished example is one of the best patterns of literary witticisms that were ever created in the history of culture.