The town's church, dedicated to Saint
Clothilde (wife of
Clovis I, king of the
Franks, whom she convinced to convert to Christianity), was built in the 12th century, in the
Romanesque style, though it has frequently been rebuilt. It contains relics of its name saint. In the 13th century an
abbey was built near the commune, at
Joyenval, and its ruins on the golf course were listed as historic monuments in 1989. In 1789 the "
desert of Retz" was built on the site of the abandoned and ruined village of Saint-Jacques-de-Retz to the north of Chambourcy, on the fringes of the forest of Marly. It was a
Romantic garden made up of a number of
follies, including a ruined column, a
pyramid, and a
Chinese pavilion. It was declared a historic monument in 1941. Number 64 of the Grande Rue, called the Roseraie, was also built in Chambourcy in the 18th century.
André Derain (one of the founders of
Fauvism) later installed his workshop there. The house was rebuilt in the 19th and 20th centuries, and listed as a historic monument in 1986. A 19th-century
chateau, not far from the village in the direction of
Aigremont, is now a retirement home. In 1934 the ALB dairy was founded in Chambourcy. In 1948 it launched the "petit Chambourcy", a
petit-suisse. ==Population==