YSAMBERT, Jules Henri d', French administrator, born in Nancy, Lorraine, in 1739; died there in 1795. He entered the quartermaster's department of the French army and came to this country in 1780 with Count de Rochambeau, serving afterward in Santo Domingo till 1792, when he was recalled to France, and afterward imprisoned during the reign of terror. He published "Memoire sur les operations des intendants pendant la campagne de M. le Comte de Rochambeau aux Etats-Unis de l'Amerique en 1780-'82," written in answer to charges of dishonesty and fraud against the quartermaster's department of Rochambeau's army (Brest, 1785)" "Journal d'un temoin de la guerre d'Amerique" (1786) ; and "Le dernier boucanier," a historical novel, containing interesting information about the West Indies and the life of a privateer (Nancy, 1788).