[2] Barèges sparked a controversy when she voiced brusque opposition to proposals for legalized same-sex marriage: "Why not let people marry animals, too?

[4] Barèges was punished by French courts because she refused to celebrate the wedding of a foreign couple.

Despite this challenge on the judicial front, on 30 March 2014, Barèges won the municipal elections in Montauban for a third term.

[6] On 9 February 2021, she was condemned to an 18 months prison suspended sentence, a 15 000 € fine and five years of ineligibility with immediate effect.

While the public prosecutor's office decided not to appeal her acquittal, Brigitte Barèges was re-elected mayor of Montauban on December 22, 2021, following the resignation of Axel de Labriolle.