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Three very significant books for understanding the system of the French language affirm the importance of the category of the person by hardly mentioning it. Tesnière's famous sentence Alfred parle. is a typical example. Tesnière himself sees three elements in it: S, P, and "connection". This connection would only be recognized much later as the category of the person. Moignet, in his Systématique de la langue française, makes almost no mention of the term person, even though it appears three times in the table of the system of parts of speech. Finally, Baylon and Fabre (1978), speaking of substantive actualizers, state that "the demonstrative adjective represents the most complete point of realisation", concluding that "localisation then becomes a realisation, a determination". The person is secondary. In our work, we will try to show that the person plays a decisive role in the system of parts of speech, in the relationship between the Subject and the Predicate, and in the process of determining the noun, where the noun is defined in relation to space, which in turn depends on the person (of the speaking subject), i.e. the "I". We will also highlight the importance of the person (both grammatical and physical) in different language systems, whether it is a mini-system (for example, a simple sentence), a midi-system such as determiners, or a maxi-system (word classes). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]