A true legend in his country, the Canadian Leonard Cohen (1934-2016) marked the music of the twentieth century by the beauty of his compositions. We recognize Cohen by his warm tone and the melancholy sweetness of his songs, often written in homage to the women he loved: Suzanne, Marianne, others still ... In this biography, the reader goes through flashbacks the life of a remarkable artist, with his strokes of genius (the song "Hallelujah", the covers of which have sometimes eclipsed the original) and his twists of fate (the loss of the rights of "Suzanne", the maneuvers of agents indelicate ...), crossing in passing Janis Joplin, Lou Reed or Phil Spector.