 The school was initially located in the leased north wing of the Saxon Palace, named after and owned by the German House of Wettin.Two Wettin Electors of Saxony had been kings of Poland between 1697 and 1763, and a third Saxon ruled the Duchy of Warsaw from 1807 until Napoleon's defeat in 1814.One of the teachers of French language was, from October 1810, Nicolas Chopin, father of Frédéric Chopin.