PARIS, France (AP) - President Jacques Chirac has been hospitalised for several days after sustaining a blood vessel problem in his eye, but is already eager to leave, the prime minister said yesterday.

Chirac, 72, was alert and consulting with advisers after being taken Friday evening to a Paris military hospital, but officials said he was cancelling or delaying several appointments this week.

Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, after visiting Chirac for about an hour yesterday at the walled Val-de-Grace hospital, said he had found the president in "good form".

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