Born in Pont-l'Évêque, Calvados, Marie studied at the Conservatoire de Paris with Simone Plé-Caussade.

He worked at the Radiodiffusion Française, where he was a specialist in broadcasting contemporary music festival.

Marie was the disciple of Olivier Messiaen and of Darius Milhaud, but this is his meeting with microtonality pioneer Julián Carrillo that was crucial in his musical work.

In 1979 he created the MANCA Festival (Musiques actuelles Nice Côte-d'Azur).

In 1972 he wrote a serial and polytempered piece Ecce Ancilla Domini, where he uses rows in 1/4, 1/5th and 1/6th tone.