Complex sentence: He attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, receiving his baccalauréat in 1868, and graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the Academy of Rennes in 1872.
Split into simpler sentences: He attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, receiving his baccalauréat in 1868. He graduated from the Faculty of Letters at the Academy of Rennes in 1872.