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the climate. The
result was an incredible outpouring of gifts, parcels, clothing, and money
to the Montpellier Seminary, which benefitted the students and the poor
of the Montpellier. Two years later a visit of the Richmond authorities
produced a generous building fund for Montpellier, and ultimately, a modern
addition to the former mansion, known to the utter joy of the pun-loving
seminarians, as the Centre Universitaire Protestant or CUP.
Since the last letter is not pronounced in French, snickers always greeted
the mention of the hole of the CUP which was being dug next to the old
Gide mansion. I have not kept a copy of my original letter to Dr.
Brim. But it turned out to be the trigger to a twinning of the two
seminaries, which continues faithfully to this day, as students from France
come to Richmond and American theology students spend a year in Montpellier.  |