From 1906 he worked as an assistant to Émile Bourquelot (1851-1921) in the laboratory of pharmaceutical technology at the Ecole de pharmacie in Paris.
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Bridel is credited with the isolation of a number of new glucosides, and with Émile Bourquelot, he isolated verbascose, a new sugar extracted from the roots of Verbascum thapsus.