Pour le fuyant [xxx]
au loin toujours sauf de lui-même,
pèlerin spirituel, ce livre de
pèlerinage
Affectueusement
[xxx]

(Translated from the French)

For the one who is fleeing away [xxx]
Always farther except from himself,
Spiritual pilgrim, this pilgrimage book
With affection
[xxx]

Le Dieu des écrivains by Bernard Sichère

Thank you to Julie, who says, “I found this inscription in a little secondhand bookshop
in the rue Saint-André-des-Arts, in the 6ème arrondissement (Paris).”