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Tenant of the French bishop’s place (6)

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I believe the answer is:

lessee

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'tenant' is the definition.
(lessee is a kind of tenant)

'the french bishop's place' is the wordplay.
'the french' becomes 'les' (les is the in french).
'bishop's place' becomes 'see' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'les'+'see'='LESSEE'

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(Other definitions for lessee that I've seen before include "Person who holds building on contract for specified time" , "One granted temporary use of property" , "One renting a property" , "Who pays the rent" , "Tenant with a contract" .)

I've seen this clue in the Evening Standard.
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