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Place of Birth: Langres, Grand Est, France
About Brigitte Boisselier
- Brigitte Boisselier (born 1956), also known as Brigitte Roehr, is a French chemist and Raƫlian religious leader best known for her claim to have overseen the creation of the first human clone.
- A native of Champagne-Ardenne, she studied chemistry in France and the United States, earning two PhDs.
- From 1984 to 1997, she lived near Paris and worked as a research chemist and a sales manager for Air Liquide.
- She embraced Raƫlism in 1992; the group was unpopular in France and her conversion led to tensions with those around her.
- Five years later, she joined Clonaid, a Raƫlian organization that sought to clone a human.
- After her service as their scientific director was publicized, she lost her position with Air Liquide and focused on cloning full-time. In late 2000, Clonaid announced that they had received a large donation to fund the cloning of a child, and that Boisselier supervised a team of scientists at a secret laboratory in the United States who would soon produce a human clone.
- For the next year, the project received media coverageāand regulatory suspicionāas Boisselier promised the imminent birth of a human clone.
- In late 2001, she announced that one had been born and that public evidence would soon be offered.
- This declaration received significant press coverage in the United States, and Boisselier appeared on many television programs.
- After a court in Florida launched a child welfare investigation, she stated that the cloned child's parents had withdrawn their offer to provide evidence of the cloning and would have no further public comment.
- No evidence of the cloning, or subsequent procedures reported by Clonaid, was ever offered, and the announcements were widely perceived to have been a hoax. In 2003, impressed with her management of Clonaid and public relations skill, Raƫl, the founder of Raƫlism, announced that Boisselier would succeed him as the group's leader upon his death.
- In subsequent years, she has devoted herself to lecturing about the group's doctrines and serving as their spokesperson.
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