(5 Apr 2004)
1. Wide shot of Champs-Elysee with Place de la Concorde in the background
2. Flags lined along side of road
3. French President Jacques Chirac and wife Bernadette waving
4. Queen approaching in car
5. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip shaking hands with Chirac
6. Wide shot walking past honour guard
7. Queen listening to national anthem
8. Mid shot Chirac and Queen
9. Various of Queen and Chirac walking past honour guard
10. Queen''s car arriving at Arc de Triomphe, escorted by police
on motorbike
11. Queen getting out of car
12. Various of wreath laying ceremony at Arc de Triomphe
13. Cutaway soldiers with flags
14. Queen and Chirac signing book
15. Cutaway children
16. Queen arriving at Elysee palace
17. Queen getting out of car, being greeted on red carpet by Chirac
18. Wide shot of street
19. Queen and Chirac walking down carpet, greeting children
STORYLINE:
To the uplifting strains of "La Marseillaise," Queen Elizabeth II of Britain marched down the famed Champs-Elysees in Paris on Monday to kick off a pomp-filled state visit celebrating a century of friendship between France and Britain.
The British monarch''s three-day state visit coincides with the centennial of the Entente Cordiale, an agreement signed in London on April 8, 1904 that resolved colonial disputes and helped forge an Anglo-French alliance that has stood the test of time.
The Queen and her husband, Prince Philip, begin their state visit on the Eurostar train under the English Channel, a strong symbol of French-British cooperation.
The royal couple unveiled a commemorative plaque and then boarded a train car that the Queen christened "the Entente Cordiale."
The royal couple arrived in Paris several hours later.
The queen exited a dark-coloured Bentley, then walked down the Champs-Elysees to inspect troops with President Jacques Chirac and his wife, Bernadette.
A military band played the British and French national anthems, "God Save the Queen" and the "La Marseillaise."
The royal couple was to take part in a dinner with Chirac at the presidential Elysees Palace later on Monday.
Queen Elizabeth has made three other state visits to France and many other private or official trips.
After her marriage in 1947, she paid a formal visit to France and Greece with Prince Philip.
She became Queen in 1953.
Paris was decked out with Union Jacks and French tricolor flags hanging side-by-side on lampposts.
On the Rue Montorgueil, a pedestrian market street where the Queen is to stroll on Tuesday, a chocolatier displayed a huge Easter egg with her likeness on it.
Queen Elizabeth, a devoted equestrian, will attend a show on Tuesday by an elite dressage team.
Also on the programme: a stop at a Louvre Museum gallery to be devoted to British art, a dinner with the theme of cancer prevention, and a visit the headquarters of European plane-building powerhouse Airbus in southern France.
It''s hoped the visit will bolster ties strained over the Iraq war.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair was US President George W. Bush''s strongest backer for war plans, while Chirac was among Bush''s most outspoken critics.
There have been other diplomatic tiffs: in 1984, for example, when France''s late President Francois Mitterrand visited Britain to commemorate the Entente Cordiale''s 80th anniversary.
One of Mitterrand''s bodyguards planted explosives in the grounds of the French ambassador''s residence to test British security.
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