Jean Jules Jusserand (1855 1932) was a French author and ambassador to the United States. In 1917, Jusserand won the first Pulitzer Prize in History for With Americans of Past and Present Days. Jusserands classic discusses American-French relations through history, including the Comte de Rochambeau (Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur) and his heroics during the American Revolutionary War, Washington and the French, and Major LEnfant and Washington D.C., among other topics.