That’s a chick, a couple of weeks old that you buy to raise not eat.
Yes. Local butchers can source them or can get them in supermarket chiller or freezer cabinets, usually a pack of pre chopped pieces.
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You live and learn. I always thought that poule was alive and poulet dead.
Maybe they are sourced from the same place as the base for this soup.
Thank you, I often wondered. 
Ours comes from the poulailler.
As a child, I would ask what’s for dinner? The answer was often “bread and pull it” although we would always get something else!
We never actually referred to chicken as pullet - for me the word only existed in this phrase. The origin of the word is French: la poulette.
The origin of the phrase is perhaps the double meaning. You might think you will get bread and pullet but you just get bread.
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That was a phrase my grandparents used a lot too.
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My Grandma would answer with the phrase “layholes for meddlers” which apparently means a grave (“lie hole”) - a rather macabre answer!
Apparently it’s from Lancashire dialect which is odd as my family are Midlands born and bred (Coventry and Rugby). I wonder if one of her parents or grandparents was from the North West…
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It’s a youthful hen, older than a chick because it’s fledged, but under 10 months old. A poulette in French 
which is also an inoffensive slang term for a young woman.
Here are some poules which were pullets a few months ago 
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Yes ideally coq au vin should be made using a coq but hardly anyone does. The colour of the meat is deeper as is the flavour. I used to keep my own chickes including hatching eggs. With one batch of eggs I got 15 coqs and became so sick of coq au vin that I have not made it for years.
I see the for sale occasionally in the market near where I live in 56.
Definitely Lancashire. My dad used to say it. He’d also say ‘a jump at door and a bite at latch’. Never understood that one.
Thinking again, ‘layholes for meddlers’ was used as a ‘mind your own business’ sort of answer.