"The work documents Cartier’s voyage from the Strait of Belle Isle all the way to Hochelaga (the site of present day Montreal), followed by a hard winter in Stadacona (present-day Quebec City). The main importance of the accounts of Cartier’s voyages lay primarily in their political consequences and only secondarily in the value of the scientific or geographical information they contained. They were originally written as exploration reports for the French king François I. The ''Bref récit'' gained much popular appeal to due the extraordinary adventure it portrayed as it was a direct account of the discovery and exploration of a new continent and its peoples."〔Nischik, Reingard M.. History of literature in Canada: English-Canadian and French-Canadian. Rochester, N.Y.: Camden House, 2008. 48-49.〕