After its initial appearance in the Heptaméron and in the works of Thevet and Belleforest, the story of Marguerite de la Rocque continued to circulate and to be reinterpreted.

In the centuries that followed, as French colonialism in North America developed and then declined, the story became part of the cultural memory of French engagement with the New World — a story that captured both the ambition and the violence of the colonial enterprise, and that placed a woman at its center in a way that most colonial narratives did not.

The story appears in various forms in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary and historical writing, including novels and historical studies.

Canadian writers in particular have returned to it, partly because it is set in territory that became Canada and partly because it represents one of the earliest documented accounts of European experience in the region that is now Canadian.