Véronique Gazeau suggests that the first name Nicolas is not the one given by his father, but one assigned to him by the abbot Isembert.

Orderic Vitalis says that he was chosen “in adolescentia” a few years after being sent as an oblate to Fécamp, appointed by his uncle Robert the Magnificent.

[2] Starting in 1062 Abbot Nicolas of Normandy rebuilt the Carolingian church in Romanesque style, according to Orderic Vitalis.

[3] Today a two-storey apse of the Romanesque abbey called the Tower of the Clerics remains.

Today one can see his recumbent statue, which was erected by Jean Roussel, destroyed and then recreated in 1869, on the north side of the axial chapel dedicated to the Virgin.