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"). ==See also==