Billom

Billom
Billom
Commune
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	Coordinates: 45°43′11″N 3°20′18″E / 45.7197°N 3.3382°ECoordinates: 45°43′11″N 3°20′18″E / 45.7197°N 3.3382°E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Puy-de-Dôme
Arrondissement	Clermont-Ferrand
Canton	Billom
Intercommunality	Billom Communauté
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Michel Charlat
Area 1	16.96 km2 (6.55 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)	4,754
• Density	280/km2 (730/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	63040 /63160
Elevation	345–563 m (1,132–1,847 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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

Population[]

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1968	3,704	—
1975	3,968	+7.1%
1982	4,092	+3.1%
1990	3,968	−3.0%
1999	4,246	+7.0%
2006	4,632	+9.1%
2009	4,637	+0.1%
2013	4,632	−0.1%
Source: INSEE (1968–2013)

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").^[3]

External links[]

Visit Billom - Official website for tourism

References[]

^ "Liste des Maires du Puy de Dôme" [List of Mayors of Puy-de-Dôme] (in French). Association of Rural Mayors of Puy-de-Dôme. Archived from the original on 24 September 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
^ "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&pg=PA275&lpg=PA275&dq=%22#v=onepage&q&f=false, accessed 2011.