In Nabokov's novel <i>Pnin</i>, there is the academic Blorenge, who somebody says calls to mind the legendary head of a French Department who thought that Chate

In Nabokov's novel <i>Pnin</i>, there is the academic Blorenge, who somebody says calls to mind the legendary head of a French Department who thought that Chateaubriand was a famous chef. His interlocutor says, "Be careful! That story is told of Blorenge, and it is true." (From memory, probably slightly wrong.)