New French President Jacques Chirac waves to the crowd as his open-topped car slowly makes its way up the Champs-Elysees surrounded by guards on motorbikes, 17 May in Paris. Chirac was mobbed by hundreds of people here Wednesday after laying a wreath at the tomb of unknown soldier at the Arc de Triomphe.
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