Joseph Hyacinthe Louis Jules d'Ariès (22 January 1813 – 6 December 1878) was a French naval officer who was Acting Governor of Cochinchina in 1860–61.
His parents were Dominique Zacharie d'Ariès (1773–1819), a lawyer, prosecutor in Tarbes and then justice of the peace in Marciac, and Anne Jeanne Gratiane Henriette de Mérens (1786–1823).
On 1 January 1849 he was on the Marengo floating battery in Algiers, commanded by Pierre Victor Marcellin Sauvan.
[2] D'Ariès became acting governor of Cochinchina on 1 April 1860 when Théogène François Page left Saigon for China.
[3] D'Ariès had only 1,000 men, while the Vietnamese commander Nguyễn Tri Phương had 10,000 fresh troops in Gia Định Province.
[3] After the Anglo-French forces defeated the Chinese in the Battle of Palikao in October 1860 Charner was able to bring 70 warships of the Far East fleet to help d'Aries, with 3,500 French and Spanish troops led by General Élie de Vassoigne.
[6] Under the June 1862 Treaty of Saigon D'Ariès ceded the Vĩnh Long citadel in the Mekong Delta to Phan Thanh Giản.