[DOC] [TLE] Volte-face - Wikipedia [PAR] Volte-face is a total change of position, as in policy or opinion; an about-face. The 
expression comes through French, from Italian voltafaccia and Portuguese volte 
face, composed of volta ... The successful manoeuver of Italy in September 1943, 
when the Italian Army capitulated immediately after the Allied invasion of Sicily. [DOC] [TLE] List of French expressions in English - Wikipedia [PAR] Around 45% of English vocabulary is of French origin, most coming from the 
Anglo-Norman ..... In France, used for an airline pilot (le commandant de bord), in 
the Army as ... from capitaine de corvette to capitaine de vaisseau (equivalent to 
the Army's ...... "face to face [with]": in comparison with or in relation to; opposed to
. [DOC] [TLE] volte-face translation English | French dictionary | Reverso [PAR] volte-face translation english, French - English dictionary, meaning, see also 'volt'
,voltage',voltmtre',volute', example of use, definition, conjugation, Reverso... [DOC] [TLE] Volteface | Definition of Volteface by Merriam-Webster [PAR] Define volteface: a complete change of attitude or opinion. ... French, from 
Italian voltafaccia, from voltare to turn + faccia face, from Vulgar Latin *facia  
more... [DOC] [TLE] Charles de Gaulle - Historiasiglo20.org [PAR] Charles de Gaulle was born in Lille, France, on 22nd November, 1890. ... In 1938 
de Gaulle published France and Her Army. .... disposal the instruments for shock 
and manoeuvre which had been often suggested to the politicians and to the 
High Command; then our arms would .... We were faced with a complete volte-
face. [DOC] [TLE] France In Crisis - Marxists Internet Archive [PAR] The French army collapsed like a box of cardboard soldiers. ..... The workers had 
believed their leaders, that the Front was just a manoeuvre to strengthen them, .... 
army he deserted, without explanation, after the Kremlin volte-face). ..... of 
Brning, leader of the Catholic Centre Party (the German equivalent to the M.R.P.
),... [DOC] [TLE] Full text of "The Pentagon papers : the Defense Department history ... [PAR] The U.S. and France's Withdrawal from Vietnam, 1954-1956 204 Chronology 204 
Key .... However, his effort was frus- trated by a parliamentary maneuver which .... 
and in a remarkable volte-face, the United States threw its economic and military 
... Pressed by both the British and the French for clarification of U.S. intentions... [DOC] [TLE] languagehat.com : VOLTA. [PAR] Nov 18, 2009 ... The Greek expression   [pame volta] means literally *let's go a ..... it 
looks something like the equivalent (in the Roman alphabet) of 'I S R A F'. ... Is 
this also about face, the military term for a particular marching maneuver, along 
... in order to translate the volte part (which is not a word in French). [DOC] [TLE] FMFRP 12-13 Maneuver in War - Marine Corps [PAR] Dec 21, 1990 ... The Attack of the French Tenth Army: Villers-Cotteret, igiS. 48. 31. ...... Rather 
than risk a frontal attack in the face of machine-gun fire, the battalion ...... 42d 
were in that area, a force equivalent to 12 French divisions. To the ...... made a 
complete volte-face and agreed to the provision of the various previous. [DOC] [TLE] China to receive Russian S-400 systems in exchange for political ... [PAR] Nov 28, 2014 ... Li Jie noted that China had no achievements in military technology, for ... to 
Russia as a compensation for the non-delivery of French Mistrals. ..... the Russian 
aircraft - unarmed - repeated the same maneuver 12 times before flying away. 
...... This is perhaps the greatest strategic volte-face of the 21st century,... [DOC] [TLE] The Schlieffen Plan Debate 1999-2014 - Terence Zuber [PAR] It contended that the Schlieffen plan, one of the pillars of 20th-century military 
history, ..... In the face of this mass French attack in Lorraine, the German 
commander ..... In the

Question: A volte-face is the French equivalent of this military maneuver
Answer: an about-face