It follows from the known restrictions on the topology of a real algebraic variety that the number of handles of the real part of a real nonsingular sextic in CP3 is at most 47. We construct a real nonsingular sextic X6 in CP3 whose real part RX6 has 44 handles. In particular, this surface verifies b1(RX6) = h1,1(X6) + 2. We extend the construction in order to obtain for any even m ≥ 6 a real nonsingular surface Xm of degree m in CP3 verifying b1(RXm) > h1,1(Xm). It is known that such a surface...