DESBARRES, dri'blir', or DES BARRES, dosEmt FREDERICK WA I.S ( 1722-IS24 ) . military engineer and hydrographer. Ile graduated at the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich, and was scut. to America, where he was engaged in the Erenell and Indian War as lieutenant of :irtilIvry. l le was in the expedition against Louisburg, and in the siege of Quebec was aide to Wolfe, who fell into his arms when hr reeeived his death wound. For some years afterwards Desbarres was charged with impor tint engineering in Nova Scotia.
amt other volume., with a xiew of establishing a chain 14 military posts. Ile cca. also fugaged i11 correeting old and mak ing new chants of the North American coast, which Were in Inn Volume. iu 1777, under the title of the _1 fienotic \ (Mum. In I7s) he beeal le 1;mernor of the island of Cape Breton. and soon afterwards began to build the town of dney . where he opened the coal trade.
In at the age of lie was made and command r-in-chiel of Primp l'Alward Island. and served until Is13.
DESBORDES-VALTIORE,41A'bord' Run 1Ni: .1iish•11E I 17S5 1S:1111. .\ French poet. born at 1)ollai. She began public life as a singer in comic opera 11S011. but soon left the stage, and from lsltt till 1S41 published verses of much sweetness and pathos, collected under the suggestive titles: 13,.qies et nfinn net s : la. IPCiesif I 1S2( ) : s plcurs ( 1S33) : Pan rres: j/cu•.s.' 11s3:11 : 1Couqu( is it priires ( I I ; s do nja nee. She write also some indifferent stories. lien popular song "S'il avail is in most anthologies. For an elaborate study of her poems, consult Sainte•Ileuve. \wire,/ ox vol. xii. (Paris, ISt;9).