Chirac won the votes of 31 percent of those over 65, but just 16 percent of those under 25. The last figure shows sharp disillusionment among young people with the corrupt and reactionary president. Seven years ago Chirac was able to win 29 percent of young voters.

But since that was a first round vote, and also with the complicating Le Pen factor of that election, one needs to analyze that further to translate it into an implication for the upcoming second round--I think they do anyway.  For example, Le Pen got 19% of that age group.  This would be an interesting area, maybe, to dig into.  But at first glance I don't think it's positive for Royal--particularly since I would imagine this 65+ group will have an above average turnout, which in France may need to be 90+% in this coming election.