Saint from this country embraced by the French (4)
I believe the answer is:
luke
'saint' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
'this country embraced by the french' is the wordplay.
'this country' becomes 'uk' (from the perspective of a British newspaper).
'embraced by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'the french' becomes 'le'.
'uk' placed into 'le' is 'LUKE'.
'from' is the link.
(Other definitions for luke that I've seen before include "One of the Apostles" , "Gospel writer" , "Patron saint of physicians" , "Biblical evangelist" , "One of the four Evangelists" .)