Étienne Le Camus (Surintendant des Bâtiments)

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]