couleur du temps : time-stained

4. sentait la lavande. Notice that sentir admits the direct object.

5. fils de la Vierge: Virgin* s threads; fine cobwebs floating in the air.

6. Avignon du temps des Papes. Avignon» a city of 41,000 inhabitants, stands on the left bank of the Rhône about forty-eight miles from its mouth. It was the résidence of the Popes from 1309 to 1377, a period which is sometimes called the Babylonish Captivity of the Holy See. Its médiéval aspect is well preserved by the massive walls and towers of the castle-palace of the Popes.