Bernard Blier façon puzzle

In a career spanning more than half a century Bernard Blier has shot more than 180 films He alone represents a history of French cinema without having spent his time cultivating its legend He crossed his century as an actor with the modesty of a craftsman He believed in learning knowhow and transmission He considered himself like the butcher or the cabinetmaker as a man useful to his fellow men Bernard Blier found in Louis Jouvet who was his teacher at the Conservatory a master at playing a mentor and even a spiritual father Jouvet taught Blier the love of acting theater and Molière And if he knew how to take hold of Michel Audiards best tirades like no one else notably those of the Tontons Flingueurs it is to this apprenticeship that he owes it