Lay out, protecting right in France with skill (8)
I believe the answer is:
adroitly
'with skill' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'lay out protecting right in france' is the wordplay.
'out' indicates an anagram (out can mean wrong or inaccurate).
'protecting' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'right in france' becomes 'droit' ('right' in French).
'lay' anagrammed gives 'aly'.
'aly' placed around 'droit' is 'ADROITLY'.
(Other definitions for adroitly that I've seen before include "With dexterity" , "Cleverly, skilfully" , "Quickly and skilfully" , "far from clumsily" , "Idolatry (anag) -- with skill" .)