Tributes
In 1937 Mermoz was honoured by a series of two French postage stamps bearing his image.
A French lycée in Buenos Aires is called after him. This bilingual school is located in the intersection of Ramsay and Juramento streets in Belgrano.
A road in Paris (rue Jean Mermoz), between the Champs Elysées and rue Saint-Honoré has been named after him.
The French city of Toulouse has a road (rue Jean Mermoz) and a subway station on Line A (Métro Mermoz) in his honour.
The 1955 built French ocean liner Jean Mermoz was named after him.
His epic flights over the Andes and across the Atlantic were commemorated in a film (Mermoz) for which Arthur Honegger wrote the music score. Two orchestral suites drawn from the score were recorded in the 1990s on CD and issued on the DG and Marco Polo labels.
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“The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.”
—Jean Genet (1910–1986)