verb/bʁi.ɡe/
to crave, to have one's eyes on
“Mourir pour le pays est un si digne sort / Qu'on briguerait en foule une si belle mort.” — To die for the country is such a noble fate / That men crave in crowds such a fair death.
Borrowed from Italian briga (“quarrel; bother”) with the original meaning of "to look for a fight".