Stendhal and Jules Verne were followed by Edmond Rostand with Cyrano de Bergerac, published in 1897 and released in Project Gutenberg 100 years later, in March 1998. # In 1999 Released in May 1999, eBook #2000 was Don Quijote (1605), by Cervantes, in Spanish, its original language. In July 1999, Michael Hart wrote in an email interview: "I am publishing in one new language per month right now, and will continue as long as possible." # In 2000 Released in December 2000, eBook #3000 was À l'ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs (In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower), vol. 3 (1919), by Marcel Proust, in French, its original language. # In 2001 Project Gutenberg Australia was launched in July 2001, and began producing ebooks in English and in other languages, for example some volumes in French of À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time, 1913-27) by Marcel Proust. (The last volumes of Proust's masterpiece are still copyrighted in the United States, the reason why they are lacking in Project Gutenberg's main website.) 1,750 ebooks were available in Project Gutenberg Australia in February 2009. Released in October 2001, eBook #4000 was The French Immortals Series (1905), in English. This book is an anthology of short fictions by authors from the French Academy (Académie française): Emile Souvestre, Pierre Loti, Hector Malot, Charles de Bernard, Alphonse Daudet, and others. # In 2002 Released in April 2002, eBook #5000 was The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (early 16th century), as an English translation from Italian, its original language. Since its release, this ebook has regularly stayed in the “Top 100” of downloaded ebooks. # In 2003 The Project Gutenberg Consortia Center (PGCC) was affiliated with Project Gutenberg in 2003, and became a sister project. Since 1997, PGCC has been working on gathering collections of ebooks from other sources, in a number of formats and languages, with 75,000 ebooks in 2010. # In 2004 In early 2004, there were works in 25 languages in Project Gutenberg. In February 2004, Michael Hart went off to Europe, with stops in Paris, France; Brussels, Belgium; and Belgrade, Serbia. He gave a lecture on February 12, 2004 at the headquarters of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in Paris. He chaired a discussion at the French National Assembly on February 13. The following week, he addressed the European Parliament, in Brussels. Then he went to Belgrade to meet with the team of Project Rastko and support the launching of Project Gutenberg Europe and Distributed Proofreaders Europe. Project Rastko, a non-governmental cultural and educational project, was founded in 1997 in Belgrade as part of the Balkans Cultural Network Initiative, a regional network for the Balkan peninsula in south- eastern Europe.