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Not having heard of French article about some fighting (7)

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I believe the answer is:

unaware

'not having heard' is the definition.

'french article about some fighting' is the wordplay.
'french article' becomes 'une' (French article in the part-of-speech sense).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'some' becomes 'a'.
'fighting' becomes 'war'.
'a'+'war'='awar'
'une' enclosing 'awar' is 'UNAWARE'.

'of' is the link.

(Other definitions for unaware that I've seen before include "Innocent" , "Not cognisant" , "Oblivious to, not knowing" , "Unwitting, not knowing" , "Ignorant - unacquainted" .)

I've seen this clue in The Independent.
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