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Maybe lives with the French somewhere in Spain (7)

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I believe the answer is:

seville

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'in spain' is the definition.
('Seville' is part of 'spain')

'maybe lives with the french' is the wordplay.
'maybe' indicates an anagram.
'with' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'the french' becomes 'le' ().
'lives' is an anagram of 'sevil'.
'sevil'+'le'='SEVILLE'

'somewhere' is the link.
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(Other definitions for seville that I've seen before include "Spanish port" , "city taken by Moors" , "Capital of Andalusia" , "Fruit for marmalade" , "Rossini opera 'The Barber of ....'" .)

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