Did Napoleon give human rights to conquered nations?”
If he did, the hope would have been to agitate the serfs. This website states he may have: The greatest fear of the Russian government, of course, was that Napoleon would pose as the liberator of the serfs. Rumours spread amongst the serfs before the invasion that this was Napoleon’s intention, and the Russian government responded by stationing troops in each province to counter any peasant unrest. There is evidence that Napoleon considered taking this step. While in Moscow he ordered material relating to the Pugachev revolt (the last great peasant/Cossack rebellion in 1773-75) to be sought out in the archives and private libraries. The French proclamation ’Réponse d’un grenadier français’ which condemned Russian serfdom, promised liberation and called on Russian soldiers to support this cause, had been translated into Russian. There is some evidence to believe that this proclamation was in the possession of Polish troops in Moscow although the extent of its dissemination is not known.
Human rights are a gift from God. They do not come from government. Governments can only restrict human rights. If you want to ask whether government under Napoleon was less abusive of human rights than under the previous leaders, sometimes yes and sometimes no. You would have to ask the question of a particular country.
Napoleon created the first modern code of laws, which became a model for legal systems in many nations in the World. WHen he conquered different countries, he imposed this civil code upon the conquered nations. The laws here were many times more progressive and advanced that the semi-feudal regimes that where reigning them until them. A case in point is Spain, where he overthrew the inept king and was at first supported by the liberal factions in the country. (however, he put his inept brother in charge and was not very popular). Another advancement was that he gave civil rights to Jews in the nations he conquered, which was a great advance from the regimes before him. See http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-138949897.html for more information in this particular subject.
