Étienne Le Camus (died 1673)[1] was a French administrative office holder: Maître des Comptes at Grenoble, then Surintendant des Bâtiments from 1648 to 1656.[1][2][3] He was the son of a very rich man, Nicolas Le Camus (died 1648), who married Marie Colbert (died 1642), a first cousin to the father of Jean-Baptiste Colbert.[4][5] Étienne's oldest brother, also named Nicolas Le Camus, was the father of the future cardinal Étienne Le Camus.[5] Other brothers included Antoine Le Camus, who became president of the Chambre des Comptes,[2] and Édouard Le Camus, who became a priest of the Oratoire and commissioned Charles Le Brun to decorate the Church of the Carmelites in the Rue Saint-Jacques.[4] One of his sisters, Marie Le Camus (died 1678), married Michel Particelli d'Hémery, surintendant des finances.[1][4]
Étienne Le Camus | |
|---|---|
| Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi | |
| In office 1648–1656 | |
| Monarch | Louis XIV of France |
| Preceded by | Cardinal Mazarin |
| Succeeded by | Antoine de Ratabon |
| Personal details | |
| Died | 1673 |
| Nationality | French |
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- Michel, Christian (2018). The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture: The Birth of the French School, 1648–1793, translated from French by Chris Miller. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute. ISBN 9781606065358.
- Moréri, Louis (1692). Le Grand Dictionnaire historique, sixth edition, volume 2. Utrecht: François Halma and Guillaume vander Water. Leiden: Pierre vander Aa. Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier. Copy at Google Books.
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