Raissa Maritain (1883 1960), best known as the wife of the famous French philosopher

Jacques Maritain, was a remarkable person in her own right. A poet, philosopher,

translator, and mystic, she was at the epicenter of French intellectual life in the first half

of the twentieth century. Her autobiography, We Have Been Friends Together, together with

the second part, Adventures in Grace, were originally published in two volumes in 1941

and 1944. Both books are combined here and are now being re-issued for the first time.

She chronicles not...