Article in French passed — text finally filed without change (8)
I believe the answer is:
unedited
'without change' is the definition.
(without edits or changes)
'article in french passed text finally filed' is the wordplay.
'article in french' becomes 'une' (an indefinite article in French).
'passed' becomes 'died' (pass can mean to die).
'finally' indicates one should take the final letters.
'filed' is an insertion indicator (some letters get filed away within others).
The final letter of 'text' is 't'.
'died' enclosing 't' is 'dited'.
'une'+'dited'='UNEDITED'
(Other definitions for unedited that I've seen before include "unchanged" , "Text that's been unaltered" , "As written, without correction" , "as it was first presented?" , "Not yet prepared for publication" .)