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Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni were met by Prince Charles and the Duchess of Cornwall at Heathrow Airport, before heading to Windsor Castle where they were welcomed by the Queen.
Speaking in his native tongue, the president said it was an honour to address both houses of British parliament.
The destiny and fate of the UK and France have been intermingled for centuries, he said, adding that they “have clashed because our countries are too alike”.
“France will never forget Britain’s support during the first world war,” he went on.
Earlier, Mr Sarkozy paid tribute to Britain’s war dead when he laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey.
The tomb contains the remains of a soldier taken from a cemetery on the Western Front after WWI and symbolises all those who died in the conflict but whose place of death is not known.
Meanwhile, Ms Bruni has been accused of cashing in on the visit by highlighting how she will stay with the Queen at Windsor Castle in a sticker on her latest album.
Back to the summit, Britain is reportedly on the verge of signing a deal with France to build a new generation of nuclear power stations to replace our ageing stock.
And on the subject of illegal immigration, measures to tighten border controls on both sides of the channel will be discussed.
The French president may also take the opportunity to announce plans to send a further 1,000 troops to Afghanistan.
Mr Sarkozy said: “How can we do without your (Britain’s) strong economy, your language which is the most spoken language throughout the world - do without your defence, which is the most significant in Europe?
“I want a new Franco-British brotherhood.”
The president came to power last May promising to restore values of work, authority and respect in France.

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It was taken by photographer Michel Comte and is expected to fetch around £2,000 at a New York auction on April 10.
Sky News correspondent Jayne Secker said Ms Bruni was a supermodel and it is no surprise that she posed naked in the past.
“(Auctioneers) Christie’s have come in for some criticism but they say this is a perfectly respectable piece of art,” she added.
Back to the summit, Britain is reportedly on the verge of signing a deal with France to build a new generation of nuclear power stations to replace our ageing stock.
And on the subject of illegal immigration, measures to tighten border controls on both sides of the channel will be discussed.
The French president may also take the opportunity to announce plans to send a further 1,000 troops to Afghanistan.
Mr Sarkozy told the BBC it was time for Britain and France to move from “being cordial to being friendly”.
“How can we do without your strong economy, your language which is the most spoken language throughout the world - do without your defence, which is the most significant in Europe?” he added.
“I want a new Franco-British brotherhood.”
The president came to power last May promising to restore values of work, authority and respect in France.
But his popularity has tumbled in recent months, amid criticism of his jet-set lifestyle. He will be hoping the visit will help claw back some political stature. Analysts, the media and the French public are all watching closely.

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While the current wife of French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, has nude pictures up for auction in New York, his former wife is getting remarried there.
Cecilia Ciganer-Albeniz married her third husband at New York’s ritzy Rainbow Room in a ceremony attended by 150 guests.
Moroccan born Richard Attias, a multi-millionaire events organiser, arrived in a black limousine pursued by a swarm of paparazzi.
Sarkozy and Ciganer-Albeniz were married for 11 years, before they got divorced five months after Nicolas won the presidency.
The wedding comes just over a month after Sarkozy wed former model and singer Carla Bruni and barely five months after the presidential couple announced their divorce.

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This article appeared in the Guardian on Thursday March 20 2008 on p26 of the International section. It was last updated at 07:25 on March 20 2008.
Nicolas Sarkozy’s new wife, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, yesterday took the unprecedented step of writing an opinion piece in a national newspaper on the ethics of journalism, attacking reporters who took gossip for fact and who used anonymous sources.
The article follows a scandal over a text message the president was reported to have sent to his ex-wife. The scandal has gripped France for weeks since Le Nouvel Observateur’s website reported that Sarkozy, eight days before his whirlwind marriage to Bruni, sent a text message to his ex-wife Cécilia saying: “If you come back, I’ll call it all off.”
The president took unprecedented legal action against the magazine, launching a criminal case accusing the reporter of falsification and of handling falsified documents, which can incur a three-year prison sentence. Journalists protested that he was trying to intimidate them.
Last month Bruni-Sarkozy caused outrage when she drew comparisons between the text message report and the denunciation of Jews during the
second world war.
Yesterday she wrote a piece in Le Monde announcing that her husband had dropped the court action because the reporter had apologised to her. Under the title End Calumny, the former model turned folk singer wrote: “I have no ethics lesson to deliver to anyone,” before attacking journalists who reported gossip and cited unnamed sources. She insisted her husband had not attacked the freedom of the press.
“If from now on rumour feeds information, if fantasies feed scoops, where are we heading?” she wrote. “If great newspapers stop separating the facts from the gossip, who will do it?”
Airy Routier, the journalist who wrote the text message article, said yesterday he stood by his story. He had apologised to Bruni-Sarkozy only over any “hurt” the story had caused her. He acknowledged that he never saw the text message, but said he received the information from a strong source and accused the president of trying to cow the press. Cécilia has denied receiving such a message.

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