At last night's Almack's there was such a bagarre among them, that several ladies were obliged to wait for hours before the chaos was reduced to any order.
He was in the thick of the bagarres in the Latin Quarter where he noted the viciousness of the French police.
The ordinary, non-political bagarre is a vital part of French daily life.
Such a procedure, one gathers, could easily start a bagarre all over again - perhaps right there in the courtroom.
In one of the walls was a hole, made, one might guess, in the heat of a bagarre.