HT201342 My new iCloud email address

Why is a French company using my iCloud address to contact a French woman with the same first name and a surname which is a translation of mine? Has Apple duplicated the email address somehow? How do I stop this?

They are addressed to your email address I assume? I think the most likely explanation is that her address is similar and she mistyped it when she set up her Amazon account: consequently you are getting them and she isn't (particularly as you apparently aren't getting any other emails to her). This wouldn't mean she can get your emails.
However it's difficult to see what you can do to stop it since you don't know what her address actually is - if you think you can guess it you could email her and ask her to correct it in Amazon (if you guess wrong it will simply bounce so no harm done). Possibly if you could find a general contact address for Amazon you could alert them to it.
Otherwise you could set up a Rule to move all emails from Amazon France to the trash so at least you won't see them. Maybe she'll eventually work out that something is wrong.

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