Billom Explained

Billom
Commune Status:	Commune
Image Coat Of Arms:	Blason ville fr Billom (Puy-de-Dôme)..svg
Arrondissement:	Clermont-Ferrand
Canton:	Billom
Insee:	63040
Postal Code:	63160
Mayor:	Jean-Michel Charlat^[1]
Term:	2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:	Billom Communauté
Coordinates:	45.7197°N 3.3382°W
Elevation Min M:	345
Elevation Max M:	563
Area Km2:	16.96

Billom (in French pronounced as /bijɔ̃/; Auvergnat: Bilhom) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in central France.

Notable natives

Billom was the birthplace of the philosopher Georges Bataille. It was also the birthplace of Cardinal Hugh Aycelin, OP, who was a 13th-century French Dominican theologian and philosopher, and who served as lector at the Studium Provinciale of Santa Sabina in Rome, this institution being the predecessor of the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas (the "Angelicum").^[2]

Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022. fr.
"Frater Hugo de Bidiliomo provincie Francie, magister fuit egregius in theologia et mul[tum] famosus in romana curia; qui actu lector existens apud Sanctam Sabinam, per papam Nicolaum quartum eiusdem ecclesie factus cardinalis [16 May 1288]; postmodum per Celestinum papa in [1294] est ordinatus in episcopum [O]stiensem", cr. p. 3r, at http://www.e-theca.net/emiliopanella/lector12.htm, accessed 9 May 2011. See also Rome across Time and Space: Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas (2011), p. 275, at https://books.google.com/books?id=xGiHbiqknLgC&dq=%22&pg=PA275 accessed 2011.