The Bourbon Restoration entailed not just a return of the Bourbon dynasty to the throne but also an imperial and commercial reconfiguration. Power and prestige were tied up in commerce and colonialism. Thus, colonial officials and an array of people whose livelihoods had depended on colonial trade sought ways to reestablish France’s erstwhile colonies or, failing that, to substitute for them. This paper examines the various Restoration era schemes to “restore” an Old Regime model of commerce and colonialism, as government officials, merchants, investors, and shippers agreed that power came from commerce, commerce required cash crops, and cash crops necessitated plantation agriculture. The paper considers several “nodes” in the Bourbon Atlantic world as exemplars of the “Restoration Atlantic,” and argues that the effort to “restore” a lost colonial world was at once deeply reactionary and highly experimental.