Word: freemasons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...join De Gaulle. He discusses the convulsions of Anglophobic, anti-Semitic and antidemocratic feeling that after the debacle helped Frenchmen blame everyone but themselves for defeat. He also tells of his charade of a trial by Petainist judges, before which he announced: "I am a Jew. I am a Freemason, but I am not a deserter; now let the trial begin...
...funds as usual, the composer sent a note to his friend Franz Hofdemel, imploring the loan of 100 gulden (about $500 in today's money). As an added persuasion, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart hinted that as a Freemason, he might be helpful in backing Hofdemel's candidacy for the same order. History does not record whether Mozart repaid the loan. But last week the letter, written in 1789, just two years before the composer's death, brought $5,738 at an auction in Cologne-more than ten times the asking price...