“…The Paris region (He de France) was actually ranked second to last in the 1975-and least in the 1982 national censuses-for its percentage of elderly population, while the Toulouse, Grenoble and Lyon, Montpellier, Rennes, Bordeaux, Aix-Marseille areas were respectively ranked 3, 16, 2, 11, 6, and 8 of the 22 French regions (Lacroix, 1984;Parant, 1978).…”