France prešeren poems in english
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| 1800-21 | Childhood years spent in Vrba and with his uncles, school years in Ljubljana | |
rance was born into a farmer's family, as the first son and third child of Šimen and Mina Prešeren.Slovenian national anthem lyricsResearch into Prešeren had established his date of birth as 3rd December 1800, but recently some doubts have surfaced about this; the Slovene genealogy association, which drew up a detailed family-tree of the Prešeren family, asserts that the date of the poet's birth is 2nd December, whilst on the 3rd he was christened and his name entered in the register of births. But let us leave the exact date of Prešeren's birth as a challenge to researchers, whilst for us the only important fact is that Prešeren was born at all. The Prešeren's farm, known in the village as 'pri Ribičevih' was quite modern by the standards applying in those days, and Šimen was quite a progressive farmer. In addition to farming, he also grew fruit 
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