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The intense emotion the Greek War of Independance aroused in the whole Western World during the 1820s rapidly sank into oblivion. If today, the event has become the object of a renewed interest among Historians, it appears that to truly grasp the large mobilization of hearts and awareness for the Greek cause, collective imaginary and emotion must be brought into focus, which is not sufficiently the case in the existing studies. Therefore, this contribution offers to discern how opinions seized upon the event and how, by projecting their own expectations and fears, their hopes and nostalgias, they have made of this faraway war between Greeks and Turks an over-signifying and largely imagined event. This enquiry about the catalyst power of emotion and the performative role of the Philhellenic collective imaginary continues here through the disclosure of a strongly transnational dynamic, one which resulted in the intervention of the Powers in favor of Greece and in the creation of the first xixth century’s Nation-State.