We give a modern version of the following result of Halphen: “degrees and classes of successive evolutes of a plane algebraic curve form two arithmetic progressions of the same ratio after a sufficient number of iterations”. The iteration of this transform provides adesingularisationprocess (branch by branch) of plane curves, different to the Nash transform and the Noether process. To prove these two points,we introduce systematically Puiseux's exponents, semi-groups of exponents and use elimination and duality formulae.