This article examines the treatment of the tragic events of September 11th, 2001 by French-language newspapers in Canada. The Canadian population expressed a strong need to understand these events, and the Canadian media responded by publishing a number of informative and analytical articles in an effort to comprehend the magnitude of a tragedy which resonated around the world. By searching for the expression « 11 septembre » between September 11th, 2001 and September 12th, 2002 in Le Devoir, Le Soleil, La Presse, L’Acadie Nouvelle, Le Droit and La Liberté, newspapers that represent the main francophone regions of the country, we located and extracted 158 articles on the topic. This comprehensive corpus was then examined using text analysis software to produce a lexical and thematic analysis of the representations of these events in the French-language Canadian press.