chauvinism

Unreasonable and exaggerated patriotism and pride in one's own country, with a corresponding contempt for other nations. In the mid-20th century the expression male chauvinism was coined to mean an assumed superiority of the male sex over the female.

The term is the French equivalent of the English ‘jingoism’.

Nicolas Chauvin was a veteran of the French army noted for his devotion to the Napoleon I, and his name became a synonym for the blind worship given by Frenchmen to the emperor. Chauvin has been represented as a patriotic character by many writers, for example in T and H Cogniard's La Cocarde tricolore 1831.