Gallimania

English

Etymology

From Latin gallicus +‎ -mania.

Noun

Gallimania (uncountable)

1. Synonym of Gallophilia
   • 1787, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, The Parliamentary Register:

     He said, he was not so totally lost in the vortex of the Gallimania, that seemed to swallow up all other considerations, as to lose fight entirely of the liberty of the British subječt, and to forget that the great boast of the kingdom had been, that the Taxes paid by Englishmen were imposed impartially, and that their weight fell equally on all ranks and descriptions of men.

   • 1810, The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal, page 505:

     Though immediate neighbours, the two nations have, at least in this branch of science, borrowed little from each other; and the Gallimania, which has been so often and so justly ascribed to the Germans, has never induced them to abandon their pursuit after the first elements of knowlege and the establishment of new systems.

   • 1923, Constantine Edward McGuire, Catholic Builders of the Nation:

     At the end of the eighteenth century, during the time of the French Revolution, great numbers emigrated from France and from Santo Domingo and were so cordially welcomed in the new United States that "Gallimania" became the reigning fad of the day.