[1] The choreography was by Jean Coralli, and the decor by a number of hands including Eduard Bertin, Eugène Lami, Camille Roqueplan and Paul Delaroche.

[4] The director of the Opéra, Louis Véron, wrote in his memoirs that, during the cholera epidemic in Paris; I wished neither to make use of nor to jeopardize any of the important works of the repertory.

[7] The music contains several direct quotations from Beethoven, including from his Fifth Symphony (in the act 2 meeting of the demons) and his Pathétique sonata.

[8] On 2 August 1832, Frédéric Chopin wrote to Ferdinand Hiller that "La tentation, an opera-ballet by Halévy and Gide, tempted no-one with any good taste, since it is as dull as your German parliament is out of keeping with the spirit of our century".

[12] An oriental desert close to a hermitage The hermit prays to free himself from temptation; he is apparently struck dead by lightning when lusting after the pilgrim Marie.

In one of the most popular scenes of the opera,[16] they create the temptress Miranda, who rises (apparently naked) from a cauldron which has previously produced a grisly monster.