sentences:  Nonetheless, fuelled by the secrecy that still surrounded the Bastille, official as well as public concern about the prison and the system that supported it also began to mount, prompting reforms.As early as 1775, Louis XVI's minister Malesherbes had authorised all prisoners to be given newspapers to read, and to be allowed to write and to correspond with their family and friends.In the 1780s Breteuil, the Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi, began a substantial reform of the system of "lettres de cachet" that sent prisoners to the Bastille