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Yup! It's weird it is écritoire and not êcritoire, since losing the S usually goes es -> ê in French (cf. château, fenêtre). Digging a bit more, looks like here es -> é happened
The accent is not usually written for a capital E - I think that's the reason.
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No, I mean why it's not circumflexe instead of acute. The rule is no accents in capital letters, yes (French, Spanish and Catalan at least)
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"é" also indicates a lost "s" and I think it depends on the pronunciation (imagine an "s" then elide it) whether it becomes "é" or "ê", but I can't think of a French word beginning with "ê" (though there are words beginning with "â" and "ô").
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