See Proust end haltingly, seeing they've featured a different French writer (8)
I believe the answer is:
stendhal
'writer' is the definition.
(I know that Stendhal is a writer)
'see proust end haltingly seeing they've featured a different french' is the wordplay.
'STENDHAL' is hidden within the letters.
But, I'm uncertain how this is indicated.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for stendhal that I've seen before include "French novelist (The Charterhouse of Parma)" , "Writer" , "Le rouge et le Noir author" , "French author (The Charterhouse of Parma)" .)