On Louis the 14th (In 1684) Freeing Hundreds of Christian Slaves from Moorish Strongholds In Tunis, Algiers, and Tripoli and Upon Learning that a Significant Minority of Them Were English, Summoned Their Former Barbary Masters and Returned Them to Servitude

France's hatred of England aside here, this was not unusual for the time in that inconsistencies of that nature abounded (Cromwell freeing slaves held by the Arabs only to enslave the Irish later, the French and Dutch doing their part to battle the Arab slave trade only to purchase slaves from Africa and ship them off to the new world, etc.).......and that it was only when the British Empire got serious about emancipation that a semblance of moral consistency emerged. Still an interesting story, though, huh?