Marivaux’s Les fausses confidences and its translation by Manuel Bretón de los Herreros are analyzed by means of a comparative method, in the frame of the translation of French plays into Spanish at the beginning of the XIXth century. The distribution of the play, characters, space, language and type of translation are also studied. Because of the circumstances at that moment and his personal opposition, Bretón rather than translating accommodates and adjusts the commissioned French text to the Spanish scene of the time, always trying to please his audiences.