Born in
Sainte-Foy-lès-Lyon, Metropolis of Lyon, He was included in Lyonnais' senior squad for the
Ligue 1 championship in the 1991–92 season, but did not make his Ligue 1 debut until August 1992. His national breakthrough came during the 1994–95 season, when he scored 15 league goals. In the 1995–96 season, he scored 18 league goals for Lyonnais and took part in both the
1996 European Under-21 Championship and
1996 Summer Olympics tournaments. He made his debut for the France national team in August 1996, under national manager
Aimé Jacquet. However, Maurice's progress was halted during the 1996–97 season, when he suffered a ruptured
achilles tendon and went through several months of recovery. In the summer 1997, he moved from Lyonnais to league rivals
Paris Saint-Germain in a transfer deal worth
FF 41 million. He played a single season at Paris SG, scoring seven league goals, before he moved on to
Olympique de Marseille in the summer 1998. In his first season at Marseille, Maurice recovered his goal scoring ability, and netted 14 league goals. Marseille reached the final of the international 1999
UEFA Cup tournament, but lost 0–3 to
Parma AC from Italy. The following two years at Marseille, Maurice suffered several minor injuries, and could not establish himself in the Marseille starting line-up. He played his last match for the France national team in November 1999, scoring his only national team goal in a 3–0 win against
Croatia, before being dropped by new national team manager
Roger Lemerre. He moved abroad in the summer 2001, to play for
Celta de Vigo in Spain. After a single, unsuccessful year at the club, he returned to France to play for Ligue 1 club
SC Bastia. He had moderate success at Bastia, but when his contract expired in the summer 2004, only newly
promoted team
FC Istres were in need of his services. He failed to score any goals for the
relegation battling Istres team, and left the club in January 2005. He moved to
Ligue 2 club
LB Châteauroux, where he played until he retired in September 2005. ==Later career==