Bousingot : The term "Bousingot" (or bouzingo, or even bousingo) belongs to the romantic vocabulary. The word is borrowed from English naval slang (bousin = 1) cabaret, wrong place; 2) uproar; 3) sailor hat).
Having been used in the refrain of a song: "we made the bouzingo", during a memorable nocturnal uproar in the Petit Cénacle, this term was subsequently applied to the members of the latter because of their agitation and their scruffy sartorial. They themselves claim the word and decide on a collective publication: Les Contes du Bouzingo; only The Hand of Glory, by Gérard de Nerval, and Onophrius Wphly, by Théophile Gautier, will see the light of day.
At the same time, the word is used in a political sense and applies to revolutionary students who participated in the riots of February and June 1832. A series of articles is devoted to them in Le Figaro (Feb. 1832), making an assimilation un a little too hasty with the literary Bousingots mentioned above.
Finally, bousingot designates the patent leather hat, an essential element in the panoply of romantic youth.