An accomplished painter and linguist, Laetitia herself became, with age, a doyenne of Capri personalities, a stylish and fastidious grande dame, at the centre of the island’s occasions and institutions.

Maybe any writer who yaps about her work outside brief interviews comes off as a car salesman. Or worse, as if she’s touting herself as the doyenne.

Dawn Powell, the doyenne of oft-rediscovered authors, finally made it into the Library of America in 2001

This side of Bardot survives in the doyenne who today proclaims her disgust

She's also some kind of doyenne of the local crafts scene.