Étienne Le Camus.

About Étienne Le Camus

Étienne Le Camus was a French administrative office holder: Maître des Comptes at Grenoble, then Surintendant des Bâtiments from 1648 to 1656. He was the son of a very rich man, Nicolas Le Camus, who married Marie Colbert, a first cousin to the father of Jean-Baptiste Colbert. 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, married Michel Particelli d'Hémery, surintendant des finances.