 After retiring as Director General of the Persian Customs, General Kitabgi moved to Paris, where he led a lavish and playboy lifestyle.He was the Persian commissioner-general at the Paris Exposition of 1900.At the same year, Kitabgi Khan, as a firm believer in future of Iranian Oil, met up with Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, former British Ambassador in Tehran and Reuter's private secretary, Monsieur Cotte, who had a report published by a French geologist called Jacques de Morgan entitled "Note sur les Gites de Naphte de Kand-I-Shirin" which claimed Persia was capable of having vast oil reserves.