On the occasion of the Salon du Dessin, the Musée Carnavalet, museum dedicated to the history of Paris, takes out of its cardboards sculptors' drawings that it preserves.
Borrowed to the Antiquity, the colum was for a long time an almost obliged choise when setting up a votive monument intended to immortize the memory of memorable event, or person ; in Paris, the Vendôme column and the July column are perfect illustrations.

The numerous Roman examples, and later the rediscovery of Egypt, were going to insure the success of another technique, the obelisk, also given to become part of the cultural heritage, particularly under the Empire.

The Carnavalet exhibition suggests showing some project of Parisian monuments, or some short-lived realizations, having used the one of the other one of these patterns.