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Fools seen in the French city (5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

lhasa

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'city' is the definition.
(Lhasa is an example)

'fools seen in the french' is the wordplay.
'fools' becomes 'has' (I can't justify this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'seen in' is an insertion indicator.
'the french' becomes 'la' (one of the French words for 'the').
'has' put inside 'la' is 'LHASA'.

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(Other definitions for lhasa that I've seen before include "Tibetan holy city" , "Luxembourg's a" , "The Forbidden City in Tibet" , "Asian capital" , "foreign capital" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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