PARIS, Oct 31 (AFP) - A plot to have exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama meet French Foreign Minister Herve de Charette fizzled out in the National Assembly here, after the Tibetan was held up in a meeting, parliamentary sources said on Thursday.

The French Foreign Ministry denied there had been any official schedule for a meeting, sticking to an official boycott of the Buddhist leader six months ahead of a state visit to China by President Jacques Chirac.

The Dalai Lama ended a three-day visit to France on Thursday without any official meeting with government leaders, although he met privately with Justice Minister Jacques Toubon and the Gaullist mayor of Paris, Jean Tiberi.

The exiled Tibetan leader met with pro-Tibetan parliamentarians at the National Assembly on Wednesday, who hoped he could have an "accidental" encounter with de Charette in the parliamentary lobby, because the minister was attending a political party meeting nearby, the sources said.

Centre-right deputy Jean-Francois Deniau, a former minister for foreign trade, was to have arranged the "impromptu" meeting, but the Dalai Lama's talks with parliamentarians ran over schedule and he did not appear, the sources said.

The French government has said the Dalai Lama's visit was purely "pastoral."