French chapter replacing intro to holy book, accepting that's how it was written? (8)

Times Cryptic #29422 | 20 Across | 2025-12-25
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I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

So, the holy book is the KORAN, where the first letter is replaced by C[hapter] and SIC, “that’s how it was written” is inserted. Corsica is French territory, of course (Napoleon et al) but as a language it is not French.

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