[1] Eugène Boban went to Mexico in 1857, and became fluent in both Spanish and Nahuatl.

He headed an expedition commissioned by Napoleon III to collect Mexican art and artifacts, later exhibited at the Trocadéro Museum in connection with the International Exposition (1867).

In 1885 he had published a poster, Cuadro arqueológico y etnográfico de la republica mexicana.

[3] In 1891, he organized and published the Aubin-Goupil Collection of manuscripts, bought in 1889 by Eugène Goupil and now in the Bibliothèque nationale.

[4] A crystal skull originally sold by Boban, now in the British Museum, has been demonstrated to be a modern fake.