How to pronounce “fetes” in English

Instead of keying the current date into the computer, she held down the forward arrow key with her index finger. The weeks advanced; the years hastened by, 1750s, 1760s, 1770s,1780s. She traversed the blank corridors devoid of appointments of the late 18th, the 19th, the early and mid-20th century. From Aunt Jean's funeral and the balls, fetes and deaths,back to her own epic.