But why "especially women over 65"?  What dynamic is at work that makes women of that generation more than men less likely to accept a woman as president?  (Should I say French women of that generation?)  Do you suspect a certain vindictive bitterness with respect to the social and political opportunities/freedoms that younger French women of today have that were not available to them when they were in their prime?

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.