Billom (; Auvergnat: Bilhom) is a commune in the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in central France.
Population
Notable natives
Billom was the birthplace of the
philosopher Georges Bataille. It was also the birthplace of
Hugh Aycelin, who was a 13th-century French
Dominican Order 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").
["Frater Hugo de Bidiliomo provincie Francie, magister fuit egregius in theologia et multum famosus in romana curia; qui actu lector existens apud Sanctam Sabinam, per papam Nicolaum quartum eiusdem ecclesie factus cardinalis 16; postmodum per Celestinum papa in 1294 est ordinatus in episcopum Ostiensem", 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
]
accessed 2011.
See also
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Communes of the Puy-de-Dôme department
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