Cryptic crossword clue
French city hotel in area known to clergyman 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word PARISH

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The straight part
We know that "area known to clergyman" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case area known to clergyman = parish.
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What does PARISH mean?

PARISH noun
  1. In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
  2. The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
  3. An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
  4. A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
  5. An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
PARISH verb
  1. To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
  2. To visit residents of a parish.
PARISH verb
  1. To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.
  2. To decay in such a way that it can't be used for its original purpose
  3. To die; to cease to live.
  4. To cause to perish.

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