''Le Pays Réel'' ( French; literally "The Real Country") was a Catholic-Fascist newspaper published by the

Rexist Party The Rexist Party (french: Parti Rexiste), or simply Rex, was a far-right Catholic, nationalist, authoritarian and corporatist political party active in Belgium from 1935 until 1945. The party was founded by a journalist, Léon Degrelle,

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

. Its first issue appeared on 3 May 1936 and it continued to be published during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...

. It was briefly edited by Victor Matthys. While the ''Pays Réel'' remained the main paper of Rex, it remained just one of several published by the group, or subsumed under Rexist control, during the war. The newspaper's title derives from the writings of Charles Maurras, a French nationalist, who distinguished between a ''pays réel'', rooted in the realities of life such as locality, work, trades, the parish and the family, and a ''pays légal'' ("legal country") of law, constitutionalism, and liberal political ideals which he cast as artificially imposed on the "real".

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