MOREL, Frederick, the elder, was descended of a family of distinction in Champagne, where he was born in the year 1523. He went to Paris to study the ancient languages, in which he made remarkable progress. In 1552, he undertook to revise the manuscript of Toussain's Greek Lexicon, the first edition of which was published the same year; and in 1559, he established a printing-house in the Rue Saint-Jean de Beauvais. His erudition was already so considerable, that the most distinguished writers eagerly intrusted him with the publication of their works. In 1571, he was appointed first printer in ordinary to the king. This title, however, he but rarely assumed, and only at the end of books which had issued from his own press. In 1581, he obtained the reversion of the office for his son, and died on the 17th of July 1583. Besides some small pieces in Greek and Latin inserted by Mattaire in the Life of this printer, he wrote, 1. Three Treatises of St. Chrysostom, translated in French, 1557, in 16to; 2. Discours du Vray Amour de Dieu, 1557; 3. De la guerre continue, et perpetuel combat des Chrétiens contre leurs plus grands et principaux ennemis, 1564, in 8vo; 4. Douze Manières d'Abus, extracted from the works of St. Cyprian. (A.)