Raïssa Maritain

Raïssa Maritain was a Russian-born French Catholic philosopher and poet. She was the wife of Jacques Maritain, with whom she worked and whose companion she was for more than half a century, at the center of a circle of French Catholic intellectuals. Her memoir, Les Grandes Amitiés, which won the prix du Renouveau français, chronicles this. Jacques Maritain, Raïssa and her sister Vera (1886-1959) formed what would be called "the three Maritains".