Étienne Le Camus (died 1673)Moréri 1692, p. 34. was a French administrative office holder: Maître des Comptes at Grenoble, then Surintendant des Bâtiments from 1648 to 1656.Olson 2002, p. 193.Gordan 1996, p. 134. 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.Michel 2018, p. 357, note 79.Moreri 1692, p. 33. Étienne's oldest brother, also named Nicolas Le Camus, was the father of the future cardinal Étienne Le Camus. Other brothers included Antoine Le Camus, who became president of the Chambre des Comptes, 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. One of his sisters, Marie Le Camus (died 1678), married Michel Particelli d'Hémery, surintendant des finances.
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