He continued his studies in 1879 in Petrograd, Munich (with his brother Paja Jovanović) and Paris at the Zillian Academy.

was the son of the President of the French Republic, Marie François Sadi Carnot.

Svetislav Jovanović made a self-portrait of himself in a fencing suit with a brush in his hands.

Jovanović was elected to the post as a foreign citizen, although the rules explicitly stipulated that the president could only be French.

Jovanović died in Paris in 1933 and was buried in the renowned Père Lachaise Cemetery.