Pascal Jacquens invented a revolutionary savings system, the “secrets of saving,” as he calls them, which allow anyone to set money aside. According to him, they are primarily intended to help the “can’ts,” but they also offer the “cans” the opportunity to grow richer. The complex formulas Jacquens devised—of which he alone holds the key—can, he claims, generate millions. They are recorded in charts and notebooks of various forms.
Jacquens comes from a family originally from Martinique with four children, three of whom are girls. Having struggled at school, he decided to join the army but was hired instead by a cleaning company. It was to help his colleagues, who complained about being unable to save money, that he came up with his “secrets of saving.”
The cleaning company later assigned him to work at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris. He spent more than seventeen years there and flourished in a new life. Severely injured in the back following a workplace accident, he was forced to leave his job. At the Beaux-Arts, he was not only a janitor. Some admired this singular artist, who fully belonged in the school.

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