''Le Pays Réel'' (, ) was a Catholic-Fascist newspaper published by the Rexist Party in

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

. 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 (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a World war, global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies of World War II, Allies and the Axis powers. World War II by country, Nearly all of the wo ...

. 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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