Seven Days on the Roads of France: June 1940

Lossky's account of his journey across France in June 1940, when the German army reached Paris. On 13 June he left the city to enlist in the French army, and seven days and some six hundred kilometres later he was reunited with his family in a small town in the south. He wrote the account a few days afterwards. It records the roads, the refugees and the people he met, and his reflections on France, its history and its Christian vocation, the country he had made his own after his exile from Russia in 1922 and whose citizen he had become in 1939. The diary remained unpublished in his lifetime and appeared from Éditions du Cerf in Paris in 1998, in a volume of 89 pages. An English translation by Michael Donley, edited by his son Nicholas Lossky, was published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press in 2012.