The aim of the present paper is the description of the use of the tense “futur antérieur” in French print media. The author examines what types of “futur antérieur” appear in the corpus material taken from the paper Le Monde, and what is the frequency of their use. Basing on Charaudeau’s theory of media communication, the author focuses on the role particular types of “futur antérieur” play in a press text, and how they fulfill its commercial aim (i.e. winning a reader). The sense of retrospective “futur antérieur”, which is the most often occurring type of the examined tense in the corpus material, is analysed from the point of view of the position it takes in the structure of a press text.