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This day.
This is the anniversary of Austerlitz.
If Grant should make his grand attack to-day, be may point to the rising sun, as Napoleon did at Borodino, and say, "Behold the sun of Austerlitz." Brilliantly as that luminary rose upon the plains of Moravia on this day fifty-nine years ago, its splendor was scarcely greater o be on this anniversary of the great event that then occurred.
The 2d of December is a famous day in French history.
On this day, exactly sixty years ago, Napoleon the First was crowned Emperor of the French by the Pope, who had come all the way from Rome to perform that office; a thing that the world, so far as we know, had not witnessed since the coronation of Chestermagne, whose iron crown Napoleon , as he said, in a gutter, and put upon his own head.
It is remarkable that after all, the Holy Father did not the crown on his head; for, with the natural impatience of his temper, he became tired of the preliminary ceremony, and, snatching the crow