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The New International Encyclopædia/Austerlitz, The Sun of

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2145150The New International Encyclopædia — Austerlitz, The Sun of

AUSTERLITZ, The Sun of. A term applied to anything which augurs good. It is an allusion to the sudden appearance of the sun which brightened the overcast dawn just before the battle of Austerlitz, and which Napoleon accepted as an auspicious omen for the French.