diff --git a/Doc/README.rst b/Doc/README.rst
index a29d1f3a708..d7bcc5ba791 100644
--- a/Doc/README.rst
+++ b/Doc/README.rst
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ To get started on UNIX, you can create a virtual environment with the command ::
   make venv
 
 That will install all the tools necessary to build the documentation. Assuming
-the virtual environment was created in the ``env`` directory (the default;
+the virtual environment was created in the ``venv`` directory (the default;
 configurable with the VENVDIR variable), you can run the following command to
 build the HTML output files::