The Kay Kemble project has stretched me in various ways, including learning about history, culture, and geography. I'm afraid my knowledge of Belgium used to be fancy horses, good beer, Jacques Brel, and Hercule Poirot, the last of whom wasn't even a real person.
But a while back I made a note to myself to look up the history of the Belgian newspaper Le Soir. The paper was taken over in 1940 by collaborationists who accepted the German occupation. In 1943, a resistance group published a parody of Nazi-positive version of Le Soir, which came to be known as the Faux Soir.
In the 1950s, a comedy film called "Un Soir de Joie:" depicted the Faux Soir being created and distributed. My French is both limited and terrible but this video clip gave me the basic idea of the 1954 film, which apparently was re-released in 1959.
This Wikipedia article gives a good summation of what was in the parody, how it reached the public, and the story of what happened afterward.
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