Note 5 — PREMIER ÉPISODE
Reading edition · Edition 2
1 5 le chemin d'Avignon: 'the Avignon road.' Note that an English noun used adjectively is usually replaced in French by de + noun, the student should be careful to translate une robe de soie 'a silk dress' and not 'a dress of silk'; cf. de petits soldats de plomb (71 4) 'little lead soldiers,' l'eau de mer (93 26) 'the sea water', 52 25, 79 23. For une voix de femme (89 5) we cannot say 'a woman voice,' but must say 'the voice of a woman,' 'woman' not being a possible noun-adjective here; still voix de femme is a noun-phrase modified by une; cf. une cour de caravansérail (70 21) 'the court of a caravansary,' un coin de méchante route (70 28) 'the corner of a wretched road'--Avignon: city on the Rhone, above Tarascon; famous as the residence of the Popes from 1309 to 1377.