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Original Text:
Un jeune homme en train d'acquérir ce que l'on est convenu d'appeler un art d'agrément.

Translation:
A young man and his first approaches to the beauty of what is called the Arts.

(a more direct translation would be: A young man about to acquire what is usually known as a pleasant art.)