Scan of the report of the French Interministerial Committee on Natural Patrimony Accounting, publised by INSEE in 1986. The report presents the overall principles of environmental accounting in physical as well as in monetary units and an overall integrated accounting framework with three poles: the economy (National Accounts), the component accounts (subsoil resources, soilo, water, fauna and flora, atmosphere) and ecosystems defined from spatial analysis of land cover (ecozones accounts). Three main accounts are detailed aind presented with countrywide results: Fauna and flora, Forest and Water (quantity, quality and economic values). Two chapters present existing practices in valuing components of the natural capital and what could be a general approach of valuation and its limits.