She and her lesbian partner co-wrote poems, stories and songs under the joint pseudonym Carbet, which left them free to explore sensitive topics, usually forbidden to women.
Completing her studies in 1928, she returned to Martinique and taught in the Fort-de-France Girls' Secondary School (French: Lycée de Jeunes Filles) until 1935.
The women adopted the surname Carbet and openly lived together as a lesbian couple and family with Claude's son, Peter.
[3] In 1938, they staged a play, Dans sa case which they co-wrote, at the Salle Jean Goujon, which was one of the first productions solely created and produced by blacks in Paris.
After four years, she closed the school and with Claude, opened a book store, Cité du Livre, on Schoelcher Street, which they operated until 1957, when their relationship dissolved.
After 1970, Carbet switched her literary activity toward Canada, publishing with Leméac in Montreal and participating with the Association of Catholic Writers through 1984.
[4] Carbet was awarded the Grand Prix Humanitaire de France for service to arts and letters for her overall body of work.