Chabottes, Occitan "cabota" or "chabota" designating a "dry-stone hut covered with stubble."

Chabottes is located on an old prehistoric path.

Chabottes was very early evangelized by the monks of the Novolaise. In the tenth century, they are those of Cluny who took the relay, however, leaving the founding of the parish to the abbey of Saint-Auvergne Chaffre-le-Monastier.

The lordship Chabottes depended on the Middle Ages in both Dauphin and the Lord of Montorcier. In 1339, Umberto II, Dauphin, gave his squire (Etienne de Roux) mills Chabottes, infrastructure important income for the period. 
The last unit to a feud created for him under the name Prégentil (whose mansion is located on the town of Saint-Jean-Saint-Nicolas).

During its history, common Chabottes was often shaken by conflicts, first in 1369 with his plunder by a troupe of "road" Provencal, then during the wars of religion and finally in 1692 with the armies of the Duke of Savoy, armies began to sack the entire region.

In 1789, the population of this town of 550 souls was spread over 996 hectares of land, then climbed to 714 people in the late nineteenth century. The local population declined slowly thereafter, facing the rural exodus and the first World War