Étienne Le Camus (died 1673)Moréri 1692, p. 34
was a French administrative office holder:

Maître des Comptes (spelled according to post-1990 spelling rules) is a commonly used honorific for lawyers, judicial officers and notaries in France, Belgium, Switzerland and French-speaking parts of Canada. It is often written in its abbreviated form ''Me'' or ...

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, 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

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.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

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. Other brothers included Antoine Le Camus, who became president of the

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, and Édouard Le Camus, who became a priest of the

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and commissioned

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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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