Prudent (name)
Prudent is both a given name and a surname. Notable people with the name include: Given name: * Prudent de Narbonne (died c. 257), Archdeacon of Narbonne *Prudent Beaudry (1818–1893), mayor of Los Angeles * Prudent Carpentier (born 1922), Canadian politician * Prudent Joye (1913–1980), French track and field runner Surname: *Émile Prudent (1817–1863), French pianist and composer See also *List of people known as the Prudent The Prudent is an epithet applied to: *Louis XI (1423-1483), King of France *Philip II of Spain (1527-1598), King of Spain *Sancho VII of Navarre Sancho VII ( eu, Antso VII.a; 11577 April 1234) called the Strong ( eu, Azkarra, es, el Fuert ...

Prudent De Narbonne
Prudent de Narbonne ( la, Prudentius, died ) was a Christian deacon who was martyred in Narbonne in what is now France in the 3rd century. He is venerated by the Catholic Church as a saint. His relics are said to have effected various miracles. They were found in a church in Narbonne and taken to Bèze Abbey in 883. They were held for safe keeping during the Norman invasions in the cathedral of Saint-Étienne de Dijon, then returned to the abbey. Later they were restored to Narbonne, and are held in an elaborate reliquary in Narbonne Cathedral. Life Prudentius was a deacon who was martyred in Narbonne in the 3rd century. He came from a noble family of Narbonne and was raised as a Christian. He studied literature with great success, and was made a deacon. He may have been a victim of the persecution of Valerian in 257. A 19th-century biographer writes that he shone in the assembly of the faithful like the sun at noon by the brilliancy of his teaching and the sanctity of his life, ...
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Prudent Beaudry
Prudent may refer to: * Prudent (name) Ships: * HMS ''Prudent'', a Royal Navy third-rate ship of the line * USS ''Prudent'' (PG-96), a US Navy gunboat * French ship ''Prudent'', a French third-rate ship of the line burned at the Siege of Louisbourg (1758) by the British See also *List of people known as the Prudent *Prudence Prudence ( la, prudentia, contracted from meaning "seeing ahead, sagacity") is the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason. It is classically considered to be a virtue, and in particular one of the four Cardinal virtue ...

Prudent Carpentier
Prudent Carpentier (March 13, 1922 – March 22, 2019) was a politician from Quebec, Canada. He was a Member of the National Assembly (MNA). Background He was born on March 13, 1922, in Saint-Tite, Mauricie and worked in forestry. Political career Carpentier ran as a Liberal candidate in the district of Laviolette in 1970, and won. He succeeded Union Nationale incumbent André Leduc. In 1976 though, he was defeated by Parti Québécois The Parti Québécois (; ; PQ) is a Quebec sovereignty movement, sovereignist and social democracy, social democratic provincial list of political parties in Quebec, political party in Quebec, Canada. The PQ advocates Quebec sovereignty movement ... candidate Jean-Pierre Jolivet. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Carpentier, Prudent 1922 births 2019 deaths Quebec Liberal Party MNAs French Quebecers ...
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Prudent Joye
Prudent Joye (15 December 1913 – 1 November 1980) was a French track and field athlete who specialised in the 400 metres hurdles. He competed for France at the 1936 Summer Olympics and won gold at the 1938 European Athletics Championships. His personal best of 53 seconds was a French record from 1938 until 1946. Career Born in Roubaix on 15 December 1913, he began competing at the elite level of athletics in his early twenties and broke Jean Bouin's French record on 23 July 1936, running a time of 53.4 seconds.Debaye, Roger (1988). Il y a cinquante ans, Prudent Joye était Champion d'Europe du 400 m haies'. Revue Mensuelle FFA (September 1988). Retrieved on 2010-08-21. His first major international competition came soon after when he represented France at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. He ran in the heats of the men's 400 metres hurdles and was somewhat unfortunate to be eliminated as his time of 54.1 seconds was the sixth fastest of the round. However, his t ...
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Émile Prudent
Émile Racine Gauthier Prudent (3 February 181714 May 1863) was a French pianist and composer. His works number about seventy, and include a piano trio, a concerto-symphony, many character pieces, sets of variations, transcriptions and etudes, in addition to his celebrated fantasies on operatic airs. As a teacher, he was very successful and produced several distinguished pupils. Biography Born at Angoulême, he never knew his parents and was adopted at an early age by a piano tuner, who gave him his first musical instruction. At ten, he entered the Paris Conservatoire, winning a first prize in piano in 1833, and a second prize in harmony in 1834. Upon graduation from the conservatory, with no patrons, he had to struggle financially for a while before he finally met with success at his first public performance. The concert was shared with the then-renowned virtuoso Sigismond Thalberg Sigismond Thalberg (8 January 1812 – 27 April 1871) was an Austrian composer and one of the mo ...
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