 A contradiction related to König’s had been published slightly earlier by Jules Richard, a mathematician of a Lyceé in Dijon. Using an enumeration of all permutations with repetitions of the twenty-six letters of the French alphabet, Richard noticed that the set \(E\) of reals that can be defined by finitely many French words is denumerable and hence one can assume to have an enumeration \(u_1, u_2,\ldots\) of all those numbers. But then one can define the following real \(N\): the integer part of \(N\) is 0, while its \(n\)th decimal digit of \(N\) is \(p+1\) if \(u_n\) has the \(n\)th decimal digit \(p\) different from both 8 and 9; otherwise, the \(n\)th decimal digit of \(N\) is 1. By construction, \(N\) will not occur in \(u_1, u_2,\ldots\). On the other hand, if we consider that \(N\) is defined by means of a finite collection of letters, this must occur in \(u_1, u_2,\ldots\).