Love of French poems (4)
I believe the answer is:
odes
'poems' is the definition.
(ode is a kind of poem)
'love of french' is the wordplay.
'love' becomes 'o' (love means zero in tennis).
'of french' becomes 'des' (I've seen this in other clues).
'o'+'des'='ODES'
(Other definitions for odes that I've seen before include "Lines" , "verse" , "Lyric poems" , "To a Skylark, To a Nightingale etc" , "Works by Pindar" .)