8 again today. I saw the ”blank, blank” at the end of the first sentence and thought that might be “city, country” (or “city, US state”), and with “The blank” as the opening words I thought it was probably a building or river or some other kind of landmark. I had a couple of false starts, then noticed the bit in brackets in the opening sentence, the six letter language name and two letter middle word made me think of French and “de” or similar, which was correct, and then it was a matter of thinking of candidates that fit those ideas and had the right number of letters. I did use google to check how to spell it, but I’m not bothered by that.