¡¡PARIS, April 6 (Xinhuanet) -- Britain's queen Elizabeth II breathed the air of old Paris on Tuesday by a 20-minute walk-around in one of the most alive commercial streets of Montorgueil in the heart of Paris.

    Parisians, eager to see Her Majesty, stood behind metal barriers in the previously cleared road to admire the queen and some residents took pictures in the balconies from above.

    In blue suit and hat, accompanied by Paris mayor Bertrand Delanoe and her husband Prince Philip, the smiling monarch accepted a bouquet of peas from a florist.

    She was presented with a 9-kg chocolate Easter egg by master confectioner Nicolas Storher, whose ancestors was said to be royalchef of Louis XV. The egg was offered at 1,500 euro (about 1,800 dollars). A vegetable merchant made a British flag with strawberries and white mushrooms on a blue cloth field.

    Accompanied by the archbishop of Paris Jean-Marie Lustiger, thequeen visited the nearby church of Saint-Eustache, where she visited its famous organs and heard a performance of a children choir.

    She also called on a citizen, Regine Moutarde, who, moved by the royal visit, said that she used to be an English teacher.

    The queen planned four brief walkabouts in Paris with the intention to be close to the public. A special information device was set to announce her walks.

    The police of Paris had assured French citizen that passengers would be disturbed as little as possible and there would be minimum restriction on those who will go and admire the Queen.

    The queen arrived Monday afternoon in Paris. She is on her fourth state visit to France since her accession in 1952 to mark the centenary of the Entente Cordiale (friendly understanding), a document signed in London on April 8, 1904, which marked a friendship and military alliance between the two ancient enemies. Enditem