Jean Aquistapace

When Clarisse learns that she's going blind she decidesbreak up with her lover to keep him from knowing.

World War I veteran and schoolteacher Buffle Pascal (Bernard Blier) takes a position at a boys' boarding school, where he implements his own ideas on how to teach. Dismissing traditional methods of rigid, cruel discipline and rote memorization, Pascal urges his students to use their hands and heads to build, examine, explore and express themselves. (imdb)