He had thought of lightening it by dropping ‘de Boulogne’, assuming that everyone would understand ‘the Bois’. But then the sentence appeared to attach the flowers to the Bois instead of to the avenues: ‘flowers of the Bois’. He also considered writing: ‘the avenues of the Bois full of flowers’; but this left one uncertain whether the flowers belonged with the Bois or with the avenues, and this tormented him. It is true that some evenings he seemed even more tired than Rieux.
