Career
Politically he was a Maurras-inspired integral nationalist who became associated with a collaborationist newspaper during the occupation of Belgium by Nazi Germany. Despite all of this Poulet never opposed the Nazis and frequently wrote in support of them during his time at Le Nouveau Journal. He was sentenced to death in October 1945 for collaboration but, after serving six years imprisonment, ostensibly on "death row", he was released and allowed to return to France.
Following his move to France he published a number of autobiographical novels in which he sought to justify his war-time collaboration as merely trying to safeguard the monarchy and Belgian independence.
He would also act as a reader at Éditions Denoël and Plon, as well as writing for the far right journal Rivarol, the Catholic paper Présent and Ecrits de Paris, amongst other publications. Despite Poulet"s controversial opinions, famed The Adventures of Tintin cartoonist Hergé, who worked for Poulet during the war, maintained a lifelong friendship with Poulet until Hergé"s death in 1983.
He died in 1989.