konitski according to the code napol on in vigor at the time of chopin's birth chopin was born a frenchman now whether you want to interpret this as a french national or a french citizen as far as i am concerned c'est du pareil au m me he was a frenchman chopin began travelling outside of poland or should we say the duchy of warsaw in berlin vienna prague dresden dresden prague vienna vienna stuttgart paris in order to travel he needed a passport and i assume forgive me widipedia for assuming that he travelled on a polish or duchy of warsaw passport no i have no facsimile of it nor have i ever seen any but without passport chopin could not have left poland note in selected correspondence of fryderik chopin collected annotated by bornislaw edward sydow translated from polish and other languages chopin was using in his correspondence by arthur hedley mcgraw hill p from what is referred to as chopin's album stuttgart after september my passport expires next month i am not entitled to live in a foreign country at least i have no official right