The club was founded in 1972, coinciding with the opening of the city's ice rink at the newly built Centre Charras.

Philippe Lacarrière, player-coach for the Français Volants, was approached by a friend who sat on the Courbevoie city council to help set up a resident club at the new facility.

[4] On 19 February 2005 during a home game against Caen, Thierry Monier was shot by Mansur Bazukov (also transliterated as Mansour Bazoukov), a 59-year old minor hockey coach from the Russian Federation.

[5][6] Monier had earlier served as a panel member for a French Ice Sports Federation coaching exam that Bazukov had failed.

[7] Bazukov was sentenced to four years in prison for "intentional violence with a weapon", but he was released on medical grounds[8] and died shortly after.