Lucien Bonaparte's Son Survives

Okay, bear with me, Lucien had five sons by his marriage to Alexandrine Jouberthon née des Bleschamps. But he also had a solitary boy who was stillborn at Augsburg by his first wife, Christine Boyer, in 1796. Considering that Napoléon regarded Alexandrine as a less-than-suitable spouse for Lucien, barring any children of theirs from the succession (pre-100 Days when he instated them), but was seemingly concerned for Christine's daughters (even attempting to arrange marriages for them with Fernando VII of Spain or Ferdinand III of Tuscany), how might a son affect this?

How would this affect Lucien's relationship with his imperial brother? What marriage might Napoléon dream up for the boy? And is Lucien likely to be more subservient towards Napoléon with a son who could benefit from the imperial bounty (I figure it might affect his judgement, because he knew that Napoléon would never accept Alexandrine, and therefore he had nothing to lose for his children by her).
 
Lucien wouldn't toady to Napoleon's demands. that ended Lucien's hopes of being installed as king somewhere. At one point, Nap pre-offered up a kingship, and Lucien said he'd only accept if he had complete control. No throne ever offered. At that point, Lucien basically said the hell with all this and left.


Lucien played an important part in bringing Nap to power (in completely undemocratic fashion), then watched his brother go the route of being a dictator.

I fail to see how a son would have changed anything.
 
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