Marianne Christine Stang Ihlen was a Norwegian woman who was the first wife of author Axel Jensen and later the muse and girlfriend of Leonard Cohen for several years in the 1960s. She was the subject of Cohen's 1967 song "So Long, Marianne".
Modified street name sign in November 2016 at the intersection of Marie-Anne Street and Saint-Dominique Street in Montreal following the death of Leonard Cohen
Axel Buchardt Jensen was a Norwegian author. From 1957 until 2002, he published both fiction and non-fiction texts which include novels, poems, essays, a biography, and manuscripts for cartoons and animated films.
Axel Jensen by the piano. Photo: Robert E. Haraldsen