Étienne Le Camus | |
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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 |
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]