When, in 1747, Attiret's letter was in cluded in the Lettres edifiants en Chinenses ecrit des Missions Etrangere, it drew attention from across Europe, and two English translations appeared. This piece of writing not only had distant echoes of Temple and Addison but was even followed by engravings of the forty scenes of the Yuan Mingyuan, which thus became the model "Chinese garden" in the minds of the Europeans.
王神父的長信，後來編入一七四七年的《傳教士書信集》裡，引起歐洲廣泛的注意，並且兩度英譯。這封信不但與天樸、愛地生的說法遙遙呼應，及至四十景版畫抵歐，圓明園更是聲名大噪，成為歐洲人心目中「中國花園」的典範。