Possible Clues:

• Align; eastern
• Fix one's bearings in the East
• Roman emperor goes back around island near Troy in the East
• The east - not the occident
• Line up books containing nothing in French
• Where amahs serve
• Align; East
• Source of spices for old traders
• Help get settled
• Murderous experience, love, on which Parisian's nothing t' say