in a twist of history, one of the newest additions to the Paris hotel landscape is a once-glamorous and once-defunct 85-year-old swimming pool. Built in 1929, the Piscine Molitor was long en vogue with the city’s fashionable set, its indoor and outdoor decks regularly lined with bathing beauties. Despite its sparkling past, during the 1980s, the pool fell into decline, ultimately shutting its doors in 1989.