Original: His failure to pass the entrance exams at Paris' École des Beaux-Arts ended any plans for a career as an architect, although he briefly studied painting there under Jean-L éon Gérôme in 1864.
Simplified: His failure to pass the entrance exams at Paris' École des Beaux-Arts ended any plans for a career as an architect, although he would later study there under Jean-L éon Gerôme.