The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word SORBONNE
I've seen this crossword clue in The Daily Telegraph
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More clues leading to the result SORBONNE
- Angry about German city university
- Right to cry out before One Direction entered university
- Where to get taught in present-day European capital and afflicted round former one
- University circle into unfinished work of Shakespeare?
- University burning outside former capital
- Where could you study hard while absorbing historic European capital?
- Parisian institute, sensitive about German university
- Paris academics feeling disgruntled with previous capital investment
- University sensitive about good French name
- Brothers turned back close to north- eastern university
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The straight part
We know that "Parisian institute" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case parisian institute = sorbonne.The cryptic/wordplay part
In cryptic crossword there's often an wordplay/cryptic part as well.This part involves a more complex hint, such as an anagram, homophone, hidden word, etc.
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