Jean de Cambefort

Jean de Cambefort, born around 1605 and died on May 4, 1661, was a French composer and singer active in Paris at the court of France . His father was Antoine de Cambefort, bourgeois of Montricoux (near Montauban ) in Quercy , who had already died inAugust 1651, and his mother Adrienne from La Vogue . He was identified in 1635 as a singer attached to the private chapel of Cardinal Richelieu. He says in the preface to his Airs of 1655 that it is to the king that he owes this position.