French consul's personal refusal to admit a European (8)
I believe the answer is:
napoleon
'french consul's' is the definition.
(Napoleon Bonaparte was Consul of France)
'personal refusal to admit a european' is the wordplay.
'personal refusal' becomes 'non' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'to admit' indicates putting letters inside.
'european' becomes 'pole' (someone from Poland).
'a'+'pole'='apole'
'non' enclosing 'apole' is 'NAPOLEON'.
(Other definitions for napoleon that I've seen before include "dictator" , "card game" , "The familiar Bonaparte" , "A pig farmer was chased by" , "Emperor - brandy" .)