A French boss covering the centre of Paris is not listened to (7)
I believe the answer is:
unheard
'not listened to' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'a french boss covering the centre of paris' is the wordplay.
'a french' becomes 'un' ('a' in French**).
'boss' becomes 'head' ('head' can be a synonym of 'boss').
'covering' is an insertion indicator.
'the centre of' indicates the central letters.
The central letter of 'paris' is 'r'.
'head' placed around 'r' is 'heard'.
'un'+'heard'='UNHEARD'
'is' is the link.
(Other definitions for unheard that I've seen before include "Lacking an audience" , "Not listened to" , "as children, ideally?" , "Not picked up" .)