What Happened to the Molitor?

Who? Let us flash back to the late 1940s. A hot summer's day in Paris at the Molitor, one of Paris's most-loved outdoor swimming pools, described in Life of Pi as “the pool the gods would have delighted to swim in.” The bikini has just launched there (July 1946) and chic women are sporting their favourite two-piece designs; indeed, some are topless, because unlike other pools, it's fine here. Olympic athlete and futur...