Legacy
Boyau accounted for 21 balloons (14 shared) and 14 aircraft (4 shared), ranking fifth among all French aces of The Great War. He earned the Médaille Militaire and Légion d'Honneur for his aerial enterprises in 1917 and 1918.
A stadium of one of his former clubs, Dax, France, is named to commemorate him, the Stade Maurice Boyau.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)