The story
- French · borrowed fromchauvinisme“idealistic devotion to Napoleon”
- English todaychauvinism
Borrowed from French chauvinisme (“idealistic devotion to Napoleon”), named for Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary and excessively patriotic soldier of the French First Republic. The figure of Chauvin became especially famous as a character in the play La Cocarde Tricolore by the Cogniard brothers.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.