Étienne Le Camus (Surintendant des Bâtiments)

Not to be confused with his nephew, French cardinal Étienne Le Camus (1632–1707).

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

Notes

1. Moréri 1692, p. 34.
2. Olson 2002, p. 193.
3. Gordan 1996, p. 134.
4. Michel 2018, p. 357, note 79.
5. Moreri 1692, p. 33.

Bibliography

• Gordan, Alden R. (1996). "Maison du Roi, II. Bâtiments du Roi", vol. 20, pp. 132–137, in The Dictionary of Art, 34 volumes, edited by Jane Turner. New York: Grove. ISBN 9781884446009.
• 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.
• Olson, Todd P. (2002). Poussin and France: Painting, Humanism, and the Politics of Style. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300093384.