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The Frey bro<strong>the</strong>rs, referred <strong>to</strong> by Samuels, who were<br />
guillotined, were actually <strong>the</strong> children of Solomon Dobrushka.<br />
Of twelve children fa<strong>the</strong>red by Solomon, all were Frankists and<br />
eight openly converted <strong>to</strong> Christianity. 102<br />
Six Dobrushkas were ennobled. Solomon's son Moses<br />
Dobrushka was an outstanding man of letters. He was born<br />
July 12, 1753, and officially converted <strong>to</strong> Catholicism on<br />
December 7, 1773. 103 After his baptism in Prague, 104 his name<br />
was changed <strong>to</strong> Schonfeld, <strong>the</strong> name of <strong>the</strong> ennobled<br />
Dobrushka children.'<br />
In 1782, Moses Dobrushka, now Schonfeld, founded a<br />
Masonic lodge called <strong>the</strong> Asiatische Bruder, 106 which was one<br />
of <strong>the</strong> four llluminati lodges in Vienna. 101 After his uncle's death<br />
on August 10, 1791, he was offered <strong>the</strong> leadership of <strong>the</strong><br />
Frankist movement, which he refused, because as a<br />
revolutionary Jacobin, he exercised far greater power than he<br />
could with <strong>the</strong> Frankists. In 1792, he and his bro<strong>the</strong>r Emanuel<br />
(1765-1794) changed <strong>the</strong>ir names <strong>to</strong> Frey.<br />
Stanley Loomis's book, Paris in <strong>the</strong> Terror (Avon 1964),<br />
refers <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> Frey bro<strong>the</strong>rs, but he writes <strong>the</strong>ir name "Frei" and<br />
describes <strong>the</strong>ir trial as Jacobins taking place at <strong>the</strong> same time<br />
with <strong>the</strong> more famous Dan<strong>to</strong>n. Loomis mentions that <strong>the</strong> Frey<br />
bro<strong>the</strong>rs were guillotined because of <strong>the</strong>ir activities with <strong>the</strong><br />
East India Corporation, which company's tea, as <strong>the</strong> reader<br />
may recall, was dumped at <strong>the</strong> Bos<strong>to</strong>n Tea party.<br />
The Freys' sister Leopoldine married <strong>the</strong> Jacobin Francois<br />
Chabot (1757-1794), who was a former Franciscan monk, 108<br />
noted for having voted for <strong>the</strong> death of Louis XVI. Chabot<br />
joined <strong>the</strong> Frey bro<strong>the</strong>rs at <strong>the</strong> guillotine on April 5, 1794, he<br />
being likewise found <strong>to</strong> be enmeshed with East India Company<br />
intrigues. What is perhaps more interesting is who <strong>the</strong> big<br />
financial interests were behind <strong>the</strong> Frey bro<strong>the</strong>rs. They were<br />
<strong>the</strong> llluminati princes who had financed <strong>the</strong> East India<br />
Company, and who had kept Frank in <strong>the</strong> luxury that he was<br />
accus<strong>to</strong>med. By 1816, <strong>the</strong> last of <strong>the</strong> Frank children, Eva, died,<br />
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