Les cinq doigts

Madame, fille du Roi, jouant avec 
sa bonne, regarda sa main, en compta les 
doigts, et, surprise, "Comment", dit l'enfant, 
"Vous avez cinq doigts, comme moi?"

by Sebastien Roch Nicolas Chamfort (1740-1794) , adaptation

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Jean Françaix (1912-1998) , "Les cinq doigts", 1948, from Huit anecdotes de Chamfort, no. 5.

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