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Keywords -- 1 Prelude to Dissolution -- 2 A Storm in Portugal -- 3 A Spanish Quarrel -- 4 Pious and Persistent Rivals -- 5 Dénouement in France -- 6 The Iberian Empires: Expulsion and Imprisonment -- 7 Exile, Internal and External -- 8 A Sojourn in White Russia -- 9 Hanging On in China -- 10 Survival in India -- 11 The British Isles -- 12 Peaceful England, Possible Bohemia -- 13 A Legacy Not Easily Discerned -- 14 Conclusion: Rebirth, but at a Distance -- Bibliography. The forty-one years between the Society of Jesus’s papal suppression in 1773 and its eventual restoration in 1814 remain controversial, with new research and interpretations continually appearing. Shore’s narrative approaches these years, and the period preceding the suppression, from a new perspective that covers individuals not usually discussed in works dealing with this topic. As well as examining the contributions of former Jesuits to fields as diverse as ethnology—a term and concept pioneered by an ex-Jesuit—and library science, where Jesuits and ex-Jesuits laid the groundwork for the great advances of the nineteenth century, the essay also explores the period the exiled Society spent in the Russian Empire. It concludes with a discussion of the Society’s restoration in the broader context of world history.