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style on the nile; Shoe maestro Christian Louboutin built his very own Love Boat to cruise the Nile.
Byline: Hamish Bowles
Every French schoolchild should be familiar with the resonant words that Napoleon delivered at the triumphant height of his Egyptian campaign in 1798 to his troops gathered beneath the Sphinx: "From the top of this pyramid, 40 centuries look down upon you." Christian Louboutin was one child whose dreams they unleashed. And so, at the tender age of fifteen, this precocious youth (who was already dancing on tabletops at stylish Parisian nightclubs like Le Privilege) absconded from high school with a friend and found his way to Egypt, having been seduced both by tales of the pharaohs and by an Agatha Christie-ish vision of art deco shenanigans ...
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