This study of the Spanish translations of Les Ruines ou méditations sur les révolutions et les empires by Volney is framed in the context of his work’s reception in France. The author made many alterations to his text, thereby generating numerous text variants and different versions and editions. Those diverse writing stages also attest to the evolution of his thinking and the profound historical changes of his time, rich in major political events. Les Ruines, forged in the 1789 revolutionary process, revised during the Directory and corrected in the twilight of the Empire, is a concise and far-reaching reflection on the history of the Ancien Régime and the premises of the State in the new century. Our work on the reception of Volney considers the editorial complexity of the first editions of Ruines and Loi naturelle and is interested in the respective repercussions in the Spanish translations, specifically that of 1819 (London), mainly based, in this case, on the 1817 French edition (Paris), revised and corrected by the author.