[3] Mel Bonis moved in with the Dommange family at 60 rue Monceau, in the heart of the Europe district, in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, in 1898.
[4] On December 3, 1883, Amédée-Louis Hettich performed one of Mel Bonis's melodies, Sur la plage!, for which he had written the lyrics.
He wrote critiques of Georges Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de perles, Vincenzo Bellini's I puritani, Jules Massenet's Esclarmonde, Charles Gounod's Mireille, Gaetano Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Victorin de Joncières's Dimitri, Camille Saint-Saëns's Ascanio, Benjamin Godard's Dante, Alfred Bruneau's Le Rêve, and Ernest Reyer's Sigurd.
[6] He also proposed a French adaptation of the Neapolitan love song 'O sole mio, famously sung by Tino Rossi.
Among his students were Madeleine Grey, Charles Panzéra,[7] Arthur Endrèze, and Erling Krogh.