[7] After his father-in-law's death, his wife inherited the Château de Luins in the Swiss Canton of Vaud.
[8] Ganay, and his son Etienne were both featured in James Tissot's 1868 group portrait painting The Circle of the Rue Royale.
Coleraine Vansittart, Baron Rodolphe Hottinguer, Marquis Alfred du Lau d'Allemans, Comte Alfred de La Tour-Maubourg, Charles Haas (who was a source for the character of Charles Swann in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past).
[2] After his death, a catalog featuring some of his rare and precious books, manuscripts and prints, was compiled and published in Paris.
[18] Through his eldest son, he was a grandfather of Marianne-Constance de Ganay (1860–1931), who never married, instead, becoming a nun and writer (who won the Prix Juteau-Duvigneaux from the Académie Française in 1914).