Determine position of old gallery containing nothing from France (9)
I believe the answer is:
orientate
'determine position' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'old gallery containing nothing from france' is the wordplay.
'old' becomes 'o' (abbreviation).
'gallery' becomes 'tate' (Tate Modern, Tate Britain etc).
'containing' indicates putting letters inside.
'nothing from france' becomes 'rien' ('nothing' in French).
'o'+'tate'='otate'
'otate' placed around 'rien' is 'ORIENTATE'.
'of' is the link.
(Other definitions for orientate that I've seen before include "Fix position" , "Give direction to" , "Become accustomed to new situation" , "leave the West implicitly?" , "Adjust" .)