Does anyone else find it to be an interesting coincidence that the ex cop’s name is a synonym for bigot?

Nicolas Chauvin is a legendary, possibly apocryphal French soldier and patriot who is supposed to have served in La Grande Armée of Napoleon. His name is the eponym of chauvinism, originally a term for excessive nationalistic fervor, but later used to refer to any form of bigotry or bias (e.g., male chauvinism).

In the modern world, a chauvinist is a person who has “excessive or prejudiced support for one's own cause, group, or sex”. Before this, the word ‘ chauvinism’ had a narrower scope, and was used specifically to indicate an “excessive or aggressive patriotism”.