Female entertaining the French - Paris loved her (5)
I believe the answer is:
helen
'her' is the definition.
'female entertaining the french' is the wordplay.
'female' becomes 'hen' (female chicken).
'entertaining' indicates putting letters inside.
'the french' becomes 'le' ('the' in French).
'hen' going around 'le' is 'HELEN'.
'paris loved' is the link.
This may not be correct. Some or all of it may belong to another bit of the clue.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for helen that I've seen before include "lady" , "She started Trojan War" , ""The face the launched 1,000 ships"" , "Trojan war beauty" , "Her face launched a thousand ships" .)