 In fact, Pennahouel, an Ottawa chief who consulted with General Montcalm in July 1757, was compared to Kondiaronk, and "celebrated for his spirit, his wisdom" and his easy conversation with Frenchmen.Le Rat was preserved in literature, as Adario in the Baron de Lahontan's "Voyages" (1703).As a result of this, he became the model for all the "noble natives" who were thereafter recorded in European literature.