In the Paris suburb of Meudon through the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain opened their home for Sunday study circles that became one of the vital Christian humanist seedbeds of their century. Philosophers, artists, converts, and theologians gathered around them—Charles Journet, Étienne Gilson, Emmanuel Mounier, and Georges Rouault among them—in what Raïssa called “a place of Christian hospitality on the road of intelligence.”