[2] The historian and feminist Léopold Lacour gave well-attended talks on fashionable subject of feminism.

[3] Charles Bodinier invited the poet and dandy Robert de Montesquiou to give a lecture on 17 January 1894, assisted by Sarah Bernhardt.

Bodinier put on shadow shows such as La Marche au Soleil based on the poem by Léon Durocher with music by Georges Fragerolle.

[7] A less satisfying distinction for the La Bodinière was its being the site of the final program by the struggling independent theater, the Théâtre d'Art, which the young poet Paul Fort had founded in 1890.

His production of Jules Bois' esoteric drama Les Noces de Sathan for 28 and 30 March 1892, was a critical and financial disappointment and led to Fort's last—but failed—effort to restore his company's reputation with premiere productions of both Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Axël and Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande; when neither prospect panned out before spring 1893, he left the theatre profession altogether.