Medicines in France

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Can't find that this has been posted previously, but after a Google Translate conversation in a pharmacy in La Rochelle trying to buy chlorphenamine (Piriton), I subsequently found this website:

http://base-donnees-publique.medicaments.gouv.fr

Which allowed be to walk into another pharmacy and ask for 'Polaramine' and my hayfever is happily under control again

Hope it helps...