The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 10 letter word VERSAILLES
I've seen this crossword clue in The Guardian
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More clues leading to the result VERSAILLES
- Extremely short trips around the French palace
- Sale with silver being disposed of in palace
- Sections of poem about a sick French city
- French town’s housing monarch and heads of state assembled here?
- Poetry written about a hostile French city
- Earl lives extravagantly, acquiring second chateau
- Poetry, including excellent lines depicting palace
- Silver seal given special display in palace
- Top-rate lines in poetry at palace
- Palace where ninth stanza read aloud?
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The straight part
We know that "French city" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case french city = versailles.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.
Sadly, We don't have an explanation for this specific crossword clue yet.