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Historic vandal, but there's a French one at the hotel (3)

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I believe the answer is:

hun

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'historic vandal' is the definition.
'hun' can be an answer for 'vandal' (I've seen this in another clue). I am not certain of the 'historic' bit.

'there's a french one at the hotel' is the wordplay.
'there's a french one' becomes 'un' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'at' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other) (I've seen this in other clues).
'the hotel' becomes 'h' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'un' after 'h' is 'HUN'.

'but' is the link.

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(Other definitions for hun that I've seen before include "One led by Attila" , "Eg, Attila" , "Attila the ... invaded Europe in 5th century" , "Warlike nomad" , "Ancient invader" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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