My second child was still-born.

Obliged to quit Paris by your order, -- [Napoleon had written in August 1796 to Carnot, to request that Lucien might be ordered to quit Paris; see Iung, tome iii.
p.

223.]-- I miscarried in Germany.

In a month's time I hope to present you with a nephew.

A favourable time, and other circumstances, incline me to hope my next will be a boy, and I promise you I will make a soldier of him; but I wish him to bear your name, and that you should be his godfather.