Five decades ago, first works and researches that have as title or subject « Environmental accounting », « Ecological accounting », or « Social accounting » have emerged. In these works, there are notably examples of accounting for strong sustainability approach in the agricultural sector. This paper searches for accounting for sustainability premise in the French agricultural accounting literature of XVII - beginning of XIX centuries. It demonstrates that this literature presented some strong sustainability issues, although as a productivity and innovation diffusion condition, even earlier that the term of “accounting for sustainability” existed.